Last April 19thin the middle of the night, a scene as curious as it was funny took place in the International Space Station. And it is that, while two Russian cosmonauts went abroad to move a radiator, the signal of what appeared to be a argentinian taxi driverconfirming a direction from Earth.
“One-five-zero did you say, from Irigoyen?” Those were the words that slipped into the full broadcast of NASA. The liaison person from the US space agency thought she had opened up. one of the microphones and apologized to the cosmonauts, without realizing that the signal actually came from much below the International Space Station.
Since then, it has created a big stir in Argentina, trying to find the person whose words slipped in full spacewalk. He is supposed to be a taxi driver, although he could also be a delivery man. And from the accent it is believed that he could be Argentine, although it is also possible that he is Uruguayan. In fact, in both countries there are streets that could be mentioned as Irigoyen or Yrigoyen, as explained in gizmodo. The intrigue is served. But how could her voice get through the radio on the International Space Station?
An accidental intruder in the radio of the International Space Station
were the 04:30 UTC (01:30 in Argentina) when the broadcast of the work of the cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin was interrupted by a distant voice, without which they probably understood anything.
During the almost 8 hours During the departure, the International Space Station circled several times over Argentina. For this reason, those who were watching the video were not surprised by the accent of that man who unexpectedly slipped into the transmission.
The video of that specific moment was made public by an Argentine journalist named Manuel Mazzanti. He specializes in space news, so he was watching the broadcast when it happened. He limited himself to publishing it, but he is not clear about what could have happened.
Possibly, the taxi driver (if he was) accidentally used a frequency of radio from NASA or the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos). Despite the distance of the International Space Station, 430 kilometers from Earth, there are not many obstacles, so it was able to arrive eventually. Especially if the weather conditions played their part. It was only three seconds, but it made for a pretty comical scene.
The positive part is that the voice only slipped into the retransmission. She neither disturbed the cosmonauts nor disturbed their work during the spacewalk. It was just a scene that this mysterious man could tell his grandchildren. If he has found out. Maybe he doesn’t even know.