Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide made this striking selfie while on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station on September 5, 2012.
The brief (and bizarre) history of selfies in space
You take selfies. We take selfies. So do astronauts and space robots.
What do you do when nobody is around to take your picture? You take a selfie. Self-portraits have a long history in the art world, and with the rise of smartphones, selfies captured by cameras rather than paint have become increasingly popular. Since 2014, the United States has celebrated June 21 as National Selfie Day to honor this distinctive style of high-tech self-portraiture.
Photographic self-portraits have existed for as long as cameras have been in human hands. But what about selfies in space? On Twitter last year, NASA astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, who famously became the second man to walk on the moon in July 1969, laid claim to a spaceflight first: taking the first selfie in space during
