Spaceman André Kuipers has told how he accidentally missed out a number when he was trying to call home - and dialled emergency services in the US.
By Neal Baker
André Kuipers missed out a number when making a call through HQ back on Earth - and ended up connecting to US emergency services.
The story is not clear: How did the astronaut "dial 911"? Did he bring a cell phone with him and it actually worked from up there? Some NASA emergency panic button type mechanism? A VOIP phone or some other interface to the US telephone system? Something else?
Here is a less breathless report:
They have phones on the space station, and it turns out they can call 911.
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