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Used to dialing 9 to call out when you're at work? So are astronauts.

But that pesky, extra digit tripped up Dutch astronaut André Kuipers, when he accidentally called 911 from the International Space Station.

The astronaut was trying to dial an international number, he told Dutch public broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, when he erred. Floating inside the space station, he made a mistake many people make in regular gravity — he missed a number.

"First you dial the 9 for an outside line, and then 011 for an international line," he explained. "I made a mistake, and the next day I received an email message: Did you call 911?"


https://www.mprnews.org/story/...-dial-911-from-space


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Hate when that happens.


Dialing '011' is but a memory. '+cc' gets the job done on modern phones.


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