English is the first foreign language in China's education system. So if a foreign astronaut enters the Chinese Space Station, he/she won't have too much trouble in communications. Just speak English, we always have much better reading / comprehension skill than writing / speaking.
Jury rig a potato canon, hook it into the station's ballistics comp and shoot the delivery across. The ISS can use their robotic arm and a net to catch it. Given the number of engineering degrees amongst the lot of them, I'm sure they can figure that one out
, a rather tongue in cheek comment is being taken too seriously. I'll cease and desist. All the onboard items of equipment are in simplified Chinese characters. Potential foreign taikonauts must learn to read, to speak Putonghua [common Chinese] to enable proper unambiguous communication in the space station, although the Chines taikonauts can speak English, but that is not the point. I read somewhere a German, a French and an Italian are seriously learning Chinese for a couple of years now so when selected to get on board the CSS they would have no problems at all in communication with the Chinese counterpart.English is the first foreign language in China's education system. So if a foreign astronaut enters the Chinese Space Station, he/she won't have too much trouble in communications. Just speak English, we always have much better reading / comprehension skill than writing / speaking.
