"Hello, is this planet Earth?" .. The connection of space causes panic in "Na

Received by the US Emergency Services Center … a new incident recalls the story of 2015

LONDON (Reuters) – A Dutch astronaut has wreaked havoc in front of the US NASA space agency and has brought in a security team to follow up on a strange relationship he had established with the center. American emergency services.

Dutch astronaut André Kuiper, 60, had called 911 from the International Space Station and had been transferred to the emergency services center.

The contact, which caused panic at NASA headquarters at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, was flawed.

In an interview with the Dutch radio, the astronaut said he received the following day an email asking him if he had actually contacted the emergency department, stating that he had then become aware of it. The enormity of the mistake he had made.

He pointed out that he was trying to make an international call outside the space station; you had to press first on the number 9, then on the number 011. Apparently, he did not press the number 0; .

"I made a mistake," he jokingly said. "But the rescue team disappointed me when he did not come to help.

The Dutch astronaut made two trips to the International Space Station and the total number of days spent at the station was 203 days.

British astronaut Tim Peck, who was inducted in 2015, also made a mistake call to the International Space Station.

"I would like to apologize to the lady who contacted her by mistake," he said. "Hello, is it about the planet?" But he explained in his twitter that it was just a call to the wrong number and did not want to make fun of the lady who had called his number.