On Christmas Eve, 2015, British astronaut Tim Peake dialed the wrong number from the International Space Station as he tried to spread holiday cheer. “Hello, Is This Planet Earth?” (Little, Brown and Co., 2017), Peake’s photo book out today (June 6) in the U.S., takes its name from his greeting to the confused woman back on Earth who answered that unexpected phone call. In it, he documents his best photos taken from 186 days on the International Space Station. View a selection of photos from his new book here. Peake’s…

It is safe to say that being an astronaut and travelling to space is not for the weak. Just think, those astronauts are up there alone for an extended amount of time. Think of all of the things that could go wrong. After all, not all space missions were perfect and glitch-free. There was a very bizarre accident that no one can explain, even to this day. It involves one Soviet cosmonaut’s last moments in space during the beginning of the Space Race, between the United States and the USSR….