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Astronaut goes viral after calling wrong number, asking: 'Is this the planet Earth?'

A British astronaut went viral after making an ultra-long distance wrong number call aboard the International Space Station.

A British astronaut went viral after making an ultra-long distance wrong number call aboard the International Space Station.

Tim Peake, a member of the European Space Agency and the first Briton to join the ISS crew, tweeted he dialed the wrong number before a lady picked up the phone and he asked, "Hello, is this the 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!" Peake tweeted.

Better Barker, 79, the woman on the receiving end of the wrong-number call, said she thought she was being called by a drunk prankster.

"He said, 'Hello, is that planet Earth?' So I said, 'no," Barker told The Mirror. "I thought it was someone who had been out down the pub who was having me on."

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Barker said she hung up on the astronaut because she didn't want to "take any more notice of it."

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