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'Hello, is this planet Earth?' Astronaut dials wrong number on Christmas call from space

Peake became first British astronaut to travel to space station after blasting off from Baikonur cosmodrome

Afp December 25, 2015 Less than a minute read

Astronaut Tim Peake. PHOTO: AFP

LONDON: 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.

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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!
— Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) December 24, 2015

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.