Aye, mecha pilots. Sora comes from a prior game based on Super Robot Wars, so she's met quite a few pilots and organizations already. In Asuka's case, she's met Kensuke from the TV timeline, and a NGE!Asuka was aboard before she arrived. So she knows what an Evangelion is and generally how the canon works, though nothing... special. She'll recognize the name "Asuka" vaguely, but to her it'll be NGE!Asuka, not the Rebuild.

Of course, she'd be more than happy to have living proof to back her theory that there are alternate versions of people floating around from other worlds.