The astronaut accidentally called 911 space instead of NASA

The astronaut accidentally dialed the wrong number / nasa.gov in orbit [19659003] The Dutch astronaut Andre Quiperson admitted to inadvertently calling space to the American Salvation Service.

He spoke about this in a radio interview, explaining how the terrestrial communication system works, thanks to satellites and astronauts in orbit, according to Kuiper, he was trying to dial the number of the center Hewlett-Packard from NASA, but had accidentally ignored an important character, writes Newsweek.

a call to the flight control center, the orbiting astronaut must first dial 9 to connect to the outside line, then the 011 to access the international. But, of course, in conditions of weightlessness, the process is not as easy as somewhere at the table of the Earth.

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"J & # I made a mistake and the next day I was sent an email: "You called in 911?", – said Kuipers.

In the end, his occasional telephone hooliganism sounded the same. Alarm at the center of Houston.The rescue team came to check the room where the communication equipment between the space station and the Earth was located.

"I was a little disappointed not to have raised to me at that time, "joked the astronaut.

Kuipers participated in the space mission twice.In general, he spent 203 days in orbit. space to Earth, to his surprise, was not so difficult.According to him, astronauts can almost always take advantage of the orbital connection, organized by satellit e) However, the signal passes with a certain delay. So a normal live conversation does not work.

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"Sometimes people hung up because # & ## 39, they thought I was not saying anything.Then later I started talking right away after dialing the last digit, "- said the astronaut.