Astronaut Tim Peake accidentally calls woman from space, says ‘hello, is this

British astronaut Tim Peake tweeted an apology on Christmas Day from the International Space Station after calling a wrong number.

Peake later clarified that it wasn’t a prank call and he had genuinely dialled a wrong number.

A LUCKY woman just got an accidental call from space after astronaut Tim Peake misdialled her phone number. Peake’s crewmates are NASA’s Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra and Russians Mikhail Kornienko, Yuri Malenchenko and Sergey Volkov.

Earlier this month Peake was waved off by his wife and two sons, Thomas, six, and Oliver, four, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Scientists believe this understanding could be of great help during future Mars missions.

Meanwhile, the ISS could easily have been mistaken for Santa’s sleigh.

Man United fans fly the flag on the International Space Station. Peake, 43, tried to call his family on Monday, but had to leave a message-as they weren’t home. The space walk, which lasted for about three hours, was the seventh space walk of the ISS crew members in 2015.

He later tweeted a picture of a Stoke City FC flag in the space station.

Just a mistake that could happen to anyone 250 miles from Earth.

From southern England, it was due appear in the West at about 3.24am (AEDT) and remain visible for six minutes before disappearing below the southeastern horizon.

He is expected to fly over London at some point during Christmas Day.