| British astronaut Tim Peake accidentally gets wrong number on Christmas call home from International Space Station |
The first British astronaut on the International Space Station encountered a few problems phoning home for Christmas.
While the state of the art technology on the space station should make it fairly straightforward to phone home, former army pilot Tim Peake hit a couple of snags with his "this is Major Tim to ground control" routine.
When trying to phone his wife, Major Peake heard a woman answer so asked: "Hello, is that planet Earth?"
Unfortunately, he had dialled the wrong number and it was not his wife Rebecca.
He then tweeted an apology to the woman he called by mistake to let her know the call was not a prank.
He did not have much luck trying to call his parents either - they were out, so he left a message on the answering machine.
Major Peake, 43, is on a six-month mission for the European Space Agency. He is only the second British citizen to travel to space and the first to work on the ISS.
He was among three-person crew, including Russian cosmonaut Yury Malenchenko and NASA's Tim Kopra, which took off from Kazakhstan in a Soyuz rocket earlier this month.
He has announced he will run the London Marathon from space in April.
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