Communications challenges are frequent in house exploration however the first joint crewed mission between america and the Soviet Union introduced its personal distinctive problem.Born and raised in small-town Oklahoma, the American commander, Tom Stafford, had a definite drawl that his Russian counterpart, Alexei Leonov, discovered tough to untangle. As they skilled for the Apollo-Soyuz Take a look at Challenge, Leonov joked that the mission concerned three languages: English, Russian and “Oklahomski”.Stafford, an skilled Nasa astronaut who was the commander on the gown rehearsal for the primary moon touchdown, didn’t disagree. “Technically Apollo-Soyuz to me was considerably easy,” Stafford instructed reporters in 2010. “However essentially the most troublesome factor of all of the missions I flew was studying the Russian language. I knew that once I