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<\/div>Space Butt-Dial<\/h2>
We’ve all been butt-dialed. But have you ever considered what would happen if you punched in the wrong number while orbiting around Earth? Houston, we’ve got a problem.<\/p>
In a new radio interview<\/a> with Dutch public broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting<\/em>, Netherlands astronaut André Kuipers recalled how he accidentally ended up calling American emergency services while on board the International Space Station (ISS).<\/p> Kuipers explained that phone calls from the ISS are routed through NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.<\/p> “If you’re in space, it’s like you’re making a call via Houston, first you dial the 9 for an outside line, and then 011 for an international line,” Kuipers tells<\/a> NOS, <\/em>according to Google Translate. “I made a mistake. The next day I received an email message: did you call 911?”<\/p> While there’s a longer-than-usual delay of data transfer from Earth to the ISS, long-distance phone calls are readily available to crew members, NASA Flight Director Holly Ridings told<\/a> Space Answers<\/em> in a 2013 interview. Thanks to the immense distance the signal has to travel from Earth via a relay satellite and then to the ISS, there’s a bit of a delay<\/a> — but usually still less than a second.<\/p> But if there were a real emergency on the space station, the astronauts would have to deal with it themselves. Emergency services on Earth are way too far away.<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>Astronaut accidentally calls 911 from space<\/a> [Newsweek]<\/p> More on living on board the ISS: A Day on — The ISS Edition<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p> The post An Astronaut Accidentally Dialed 911 in Space<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Read the rest here: Space Butt-Dial We\u2019ve all been butt-dialed. Continue reading Intergalactic Operator Please<\/h2>
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