LONDON: Tim Peake, the first British astronaut on the International Space Station, dialled a wrong number after trying to phone home, asking a woman, “Is this planet Earth?”
Saturday 26 December 2015 09:45 AM
Astronaut Tim Peake is the first British astronaut to travel to the International Space Station after blasting off from the Moscow-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan earlier this month for a six-month mission. Photo: AFP
“I’d like to apologise to the lady I just called by mistake saying ‘Hello, is this planet Earth?’ – not a prank call… just a wrong number!” he tweeted late Thursday (Dec 24).
Peake, 43, became the first British astronaut to travel to the space station after blasting off from the Moscow-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan earlier this month for a six-month mission.
