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Is this planet Earth? Astronaut dials wrong number from space

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Is this planet Earth? Astronaut dials wrong number from space
Tim Peake

London - British astronaut Tim Peake dialled a wrong number after trying to phone home for Christmas.

By AFP


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Published: Fri 25 Dec 2015, 2:40 PM

Last updated: Fri 25 Dec 2015, 5:45 PM

Tim Peake, the first British astronaut on the International Space Station, dialled a wrong number after trying to phone home for Christmas, asking a woman "Is this planet Earth?"
"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 on Thursday.
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.
 


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