Oops! Astronaut dials wrong number from space

Sometimes you’re in the International Space Station and you make a call to Earth but you accidentally get the wrong number.

Peake, who boarded the space station less than two weeks ago, wrote on Twitter late Thursday night saying that he had been trying to call his family.

Another tweet from Peake said Santa Claus made it to the ISS, showing a picture of a Santa hat and a red stocking.

Peake is joined on the Space Station by NASA’s Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Volkov, Mikhail Kornienko and Yuri Malenchenko.

Apparently Peake had opened the call by greeting the person on the other line by saying: “Hello, is this planet Earth?”

Anyone can dial a wrong number, but it’s not often done from outer space. Kelly is now nine months into his yearlong mission in space.

According to the Telegraph, Peake, 43, of Chichester in southern England, is conducting a series of experiments on himself to help scientists understand the toll of space flight on the human body, which it is hoped will aid in future missions to Mars.

Peake is the first British citizen to go to space since Helen Sharman, who became the country’s first astronaut when she visited the Soviet space station Mir in 1991, according to the BBC.