Major Tom?
A Gloucestershire man and amateur radio enthusiast has been sending out call signals to the International Space Station (ISS) for the past month.
According to BBC News, Adrian Lane said he was "stunned" when:
He said: "They came back to me and said, 'Receiving you - welcome aboard the International Space Station'."
Mr Lane, from Coleford, and a US astronaut chatted for about 45 seconds before the station went out of range.
He had been trying to "catch the ISS on a pass" when he finally got through at the end of a four-minute "contact window".
What do you do when every childhood fantasy you've ever had comes true without a moment's notice?
With the "adrenaline pumping", Mr Lane said he had to think of a response fast because "these guys are moving away from you all the time".
"I asked him what the stars looked like from up there and he came back to me and said with no atmosphere up here the stars are really bright," he said.
"But he told me when you look down on earth it's something else - it's just a mass of colour where everything else up here is black."
The ISS is flying at a clip of about
17,150 mph (about 5 miles per second), about 249 miles above the earth, orbiting once around our little blue planet every 92 minutes or so.
You can keep track of the space station here.