One earthbound woman presumably experienced quite a festive shock when astronaut Tim Peake inadvertently dialed her from outer space. Peake tweeted an apology on Christmas Day from the International Space Station after calling a wrong number.
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Mr Peake, who is a former major in the Army, is the first Briton to join the crew of the ISS and is employed by the European Space Agency.
He is the first British astronaut to travel to the space station after blasting off from the Moscow-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan earlier this month for a six-month mission.
An astronomer told Britons they might have a chance to view the space station as it transits above the earth on Christmas Day.
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Tim Peake divulged this on microblogging site Twitter.
