Astronaut dials wrong number from space

Recently, he phoned home – as in Earth – but got the number wrong.

Tim Peake’s blunder was not so serious as to be worthy of comment.

That’s the question British astronaut Tim Peake asked the person on the other end of the receiver when he called home on Christmas Eve. Peake is reported to have said “Hello, is this planet earth?” and then been flabbergasted by the response since it was not who he had expected. The astronaut, a father-of-two from Chichester, West Sussex, arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday 15 December.

British astronaut Tim Peake has apologized after dialing a wrong number from the International Space Station and saying “Hello, is this planet Earth?” to the woman who answered.

You have to literally be flawless to enter the environment of space. And the excellence of character and efficiency at the job that astronauts must show are simply impeccable. Millions of Britons have been following his mission closely since he became Britain’s first publicly funded astronaut and the first Briton to visit the space station.

Tim Peake, a father-of-two, will spend six months aboard ISS and will conduct several scientific experiments, including experiments on himself, to help scientists understand the effect of long-duration space flights on human body.

In other news MB reported, As we indulge in Christmas festivities on Earth, astronauts spending the holidays at the International Space Station (ISS) are also having fun, in zero gravity, among the stars. Astronauts Tim Kopra and Scott Kelly, from the USA space agency Nasa, went outside the ISS to fix a broken component.

Christmas decorations in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station. “You might think it’s a plane to start with, but you’d hear the engine noise of an aircraft that close and of course the space station is silent”.