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TIL NASA astronaut Anna Lee Fisher made news in 2012, when, during the landing of the Space Shuttle Discovery at Washington’s Dulles Airport, she was asked by an aspiring young astronaut how they could get into the space program, Fisher quipped “study Russian.”

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