Frank Rubio: a Latino in the ISS

"Frank Rubio: un latino en la EEI"
Spanish A2 writing exercise

Explore the extraordinary life of Frank Rubio, NASA astronaut and army veteran.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "ISS", "NASA", "technical problems", "mission" and "movement".

I’ll give you some sentences to translate into Spanish

  • I’ll show you where you make mistakes
  • I’ll keep track of what you need to practise
  • Change my choices if you want
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How the test works

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Do you know who Frank Rubio is? Well he is an American astronaut of Salvadoran origin living in the International Space Station. There he performs control tasks for NASA, he says it's difficult work. He is going to stay for a few more months because he can't return due to technical problems. But he loves his mission, because he has access to the moon and he can study its movements.

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