During college, Creag received practice in newscasting while finishing a senior project.

Gasparri holds it as received practice that it suffices if the reasons alleged be actually true at the moment when the petition is presented.

The astronauts also received practice in carrying out spacewalks outside Mir and lessons in the Russian language, which would be used throughout their missions to talk with the other cosmonauts aboard the station and Mission Control in Russia, the TsUP.