Have astronauts in space suits ever taken selfies? If so, how?
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Have astronauts in space suits ever taken selfies?
Were selfie sticks used?
If not, how was this feat accomplished?
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Have astronauts in space suits ever taken selfies?
Were selfie sticks used?
If not, how was this feat accomplished?
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Does this very famous Apollo 11 image count as selfie? "No other Apollo photograph has been reproduced as often as this portrait of Buzz. Neil is, of course, visible in reflection on Buzz's visor."
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– Uwe
16 hours ago
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@Uwe Is not Neil's pic a "eifles"?
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– chux
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Downvote: Selfies are cancer and should be treated as such.
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@Uwe write it up as an answer! If you don't I will. See also What's the story behind this Apollo-era image?
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To anyone who might actually be struggling with cancer right now, or love and care for someone who is, or lost someone to cancer, please excuse the @AtmosphericPrisonEscape comment.
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Have astronauts in space suits ever taken selfies?
Were selfie sticks used?
If not, how was this feat accomplished?
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Have astronauts in space suits ever taken selfies?
Were selfie sticks used?
If not, how was this feat accomplished?
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Does this very famous Apollo 11 image count as selfie? "No other Apollo photograph has been reproduced as often as this portrait of Buzz. Neil is, of course, visible in reflection on Buzz's visor."
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– Uwe
16 hours ago
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@Uwe Is not Neil's pic a "eifles"?
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– chux
10 hours ago
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Downvote: Selfies are cancer and should be treated as such.
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– AtmosphericPrisonEscape
7 hours ago
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@Uwe write it up as an answer! If you don't I will. See also What's the story behind this Apollo-era image?
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– uhoh
6 hours ago
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To anyone who might actually be struggling with cancer right now, or love and care for someone who is, or lost someone to cancer, please excuse the @AtmosphericPrisonEscape comment.
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– uhoh
6 hours ago
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Does this very famous Apollo 11 image count as selfie? "No other Apollo photograph has been reproduced as often as this portrait of Buzz. Neil is, of course, visible in reflection on Buzz's visor."
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– Uwe
16 hours ago
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@Uwe Is not Neil's pic a "eifles"?
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– chux
10 hours ago
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Downvote: Selfies are cancer and should be treated as such.
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– AtmosphericPrisonEscape
7 hours ago
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@Uwe write it up as an answer! If you don't I will. See also What's the story behind this Apollo-era image?
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– uhoh
6 hours ago
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To anyone who might actually be struggling with cancer right now, or love and care for someone who is, or lost someone to cancer, please excuse the @AtmosphericPrisonEscape comment.
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– uhoh
6 hours ago
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Does this very famous Apollo 11 image count as selfie? "No other Apollo photograph has been reproduced as often as this portrait of Buzz. Neil is, of course, visible in reflection on Buzz's visor."
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– Uwe
16 hours ago
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Does this very famous Apollo 11 image count as selfie? "No other Apollo photograph has been reproduced as often as this portrait of Buzz. Neil is, of course, visible in reflection on Buzz's visor."
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– Uwe
16 hours ago
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@Uwe Is not Neil's pic a "eifles"?
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– chux
10 hours ago
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@Uwe Is not Neil's pic a "eifles"?
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– chux
10 hours ago
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Downvote: Selfies are cancer and should be treated as such.
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– AtmosphericPrisonEscape
7 hours ago
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Downvote: Selfies are cancer and should be treated as such.
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– AtmosphericPrisonEscape
7 hours ago
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@Uwe write it up as an answer! If you don't I will. See also What's the story behind this Apollo-era image?
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– uhoh
6 hours ago
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@Uwe write it up as an answer! If you don't I will. See also What's the story behind this Apollo-era image?
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– uhoh
6 hours ago
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To anyone who might actually be struggling with cancer right now, or love and care for someone who is, or lost someone to cancer, please excuse the @AtmosphericPrisonEscape comment.
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– uhoh
6 hours ago
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To anyone who might actually be struggling with cancer right now, or love and care for someone who is, or lost someone to cancer, please excuse the @AtmosphericPrisonEscape comment.
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Several space selfies were made and chances are you already know the very first one Buzz Aldrin took of himself during Gemini 12.
The cameras used are large-ish but imagine even holding a shoe box in front of you with thick gloves on: you're still able to point it at yourself in a distance suitable to make a photograph of yourself, provided the lens' focal length/field of view allows to capture enough of your face.
At least some of the cameras just look like a normal DSLR in a special casing and can be seen in the helmet reflections like this one:
There is a nice gallery of space selfies at Wikimedia.
answered 22 hours ago
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Wow, I didn't know about any of these, or that there was a selfie page. I'd assumed that astronaut cameras were set up to work only in the most conventional point and shoot configuration.
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– uhoh
22 hours ago
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I've always assumed that selfies had to be done with smartphones, because the term includes a pun on the beginning of the word "cellphone". But I've checked a number of dictionaries and they just say that they're typically taken with a hand-held digital camera.
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– Barmar
11 hours ago
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It's too bad the Apollo 12 crew couldn't get their smuggled self-timer to work. The planned portrait of the two of them standing next to Surveyor III could well have beaten Armstrong's portrait of Aldrin as "most-reproduced".
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– Mark
10 hours ago
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The Apollo astronauts used a custom Hasselblad 500 EL.
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– chrylis
5 hours ago
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@Barmar That only works in American English. Otherwise they're called "mobile phones". "self" plus a suffix "-ie" works in all varieties of English.
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– CJ Dennis
4 mins ago
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Several space selfies were made and chances are you already know the very first one Buzz Aldrin took of himself during Gemini 12.
The cameras used are large-ish but imagine even holding a shoe box in front of you with thick gloves on: you're still able to point it at yourself in a distance suitable to make a photograph of yourself, provided the lens' focal length/field of view allows to capture enough of your face.
At least some of the cameras just look like a normal DSLR in a special casing and can be seen in the helmet reflections like this one:
There is a nice gallery of space selfies at Wikimedia.
answered 22 hours ago
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Wow, I didn't know about any of these, or that there was a selfie page. I'd assumed that astronaut cameras were set up to work only in the most conventional point and shoot configuration.
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– uhoh
22 hours ago
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I've always assumed that selfies had to be done with smartphones, because the term includes a pun on the beginning of the word "cellphone". But I've checked a number of dictionaries and they just say that they're typically taken with a hand-held digital camera.
$endgroup$
– Barmar
11 hours ago
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It's too bad the Apollo 12 crew couldn't get their smuggled self-timer to work. The planned portrait of the two of them standing next to Surveyor III could well have beaten Armstrong's portrait of Aldrin as "most-reproduced".
$endgroup$
– Mark
10 hours ago
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The Apollo astronauts used a custom Hasselblad 500 EL.
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– chrylis
5 hours ago
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@Barmar That only works in American English. Otherwise they're called "mobile phones". "self" plus a suffix "-ie" works in all varieties of English.
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– CJ Dennis
4 mins ago
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Several space selfies were made and chances are you already know the very first one Buzz Aldrin took of himself during Gemini 12.
The cameras used are large-ish but imagine even holding a shoe box in front of you with thick gloves on: you're still able to point it at yourself in a distance suitable to make a photograph of yourself, provided the lens' focal length/field of view allows to capture enough of your face.
At least some of the cameras just look like a normal DSLR in a special casing and can be seen in the helmet reflections like this one:
There is a nice gallery of space selfies at Wikimedia.
answered 22 hours ago
DarkDustDarkDust
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Wow, I didn't know about any of these, or that there was a selfie page. I'd assumed that astronaut cameras were set up to work only in the most conventional point and shoot configuration.
$endgroup$
– uhoh
22 hours ago
1
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I've always assumed that selfies had to be done with smartphones, because the term includes a pun on the beginning of the word "cellphone". But I've checked a number of dictionaries and they just say that they're typically taken with a hand-held digital camera.
$endgroup$
– Barmar
11 hours ago
4
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It's too bad the Apollo 12 crew couldn't get their smuggled self-timer to work. The planned portrait of the two of them standing next to Surveyor III could well have beaten Armstrong's portrait of Aldrin as "most-reproduced".
$endgroup$
– Mark
10 hours ago
$begingroup$
The Apollo astronauts used a custom Hasselblad 500 EL.
$endgroup$
– chrylis
5 hours ago
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@Barmar That only works in American English. Otherwise they're called "mobile phones". "self" plus a suffix "-ie" works in all varieties of English.
$endgroup$
– CJ Dennis
4 mins ago
add a comment |
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Several space selfies were made and chances are you already know the very first one Buzz Aldrin took of himself during Gemini 12.
The cameras used are large-ish but imagine even holding a shoe box in front of you with thick gloves on: you're still able to point it at yourself in a distance suitable to make a photograph of yourself, provided the lens' focal length/field of view allows to capture enough of your face.
At least some of the cameras just look like a normal DSLR in a special casing and can be seen in the helmet reflections like this one:
There is a nice gallery of space selfies at Wikimedia.
answered 22 hours ago
DarkDustDarkDust
8,12133359
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Several space selfies were made and chances are you already know the very first one Buzz Aldrin took of himself during Gemini 12.
The cameras used are large-ish but imagine even holding a shoe box in front of you with thick gloves on: you're still able to point it at yourself in a distance suitable to make a photograph of yourself, provided the lens' focal length/field of view allows to capture enough of your face.
At least some of the cameras just look like a normal DSLR in a special casing and can be seen in the helmet reflections like this one:
There is a nice gallery of space selfies at Wikimedia.
answered 22 hours ago
DarkDustDarkDust
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edited 22 hours ago
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DarkDustDarkDust
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answered 22 hours ago
DarkDustDarkDust
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answered 22 hours ago
DarkDustDarkDust
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Wow, I didn't know about any of these, or that there was a selfie page. I'd assumed that astronaut cameras were set up to work only in the most conventional point and shoot configuration.
$endgroup$
– uhoh
22 hours ago
1
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I've always assumed that selfies had to be done with smartphones, because the term includes a pun on the beginning of the word "cellphone". But I've checked a number of dictionaries and they just say that they're typically taken with a hand-held digital camera.
$endgroup$
– Barmar
11 hours ago
4
$begingroup$
It's too bad the Apollo 12 crew couldn't get their smuggled self-timer to work. The planned portrait of the two of them standing next to Surveyor III could well have beaten Armstrong's portrait of Aldrin as "most-reproduced".
$endgroup$
– Mark
10 hours ago
$begingroup$
The Apollo astronauts used a custom Hasselblad 500 EL.
$endgroup$
– chrylis
5 hours ago
$begingroup$
@Barmar That only works in American English. Otherwise they're called "mobile phones". "self" plus a suffix "-ie" works in all varieties of English.
$endgroup$
– CJ Dennis
4 mins ago
add a comment |
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Wow, I didn't know about any of these, or that there was a selfie page. I'd assumed that astronaut cameras were set up to work only in the most conventional point and shoot configuration.
$endgroup$
– uhoh
22 hours ago
1
$begingroup$
I've always assumed that selfies had to be done with smartphones, because the term includes a pun on the beginning of the word "cellphone". But I've checked a number of dictionaries and they just say that they're typically taken with a hand-held digital camera.
$endgroup$
– Barmar
11 hours ago
4
$begingroup$
It's too bad the Apollo 12 crew couldn't get their smuggled self-timer to work. The planned portrait of the two of them standing next to Surveyor III could well have beaten Armstrong's portrait of Aldrin as "most-reproduced".
$endgroup$
– Mark
10 hours ago
$begingroup$
The Apollo astronauts used a custom Hasselblad 500 EL.
$endgroup$
– chrylis
5 hours ago
$begingroup$
@Barmar That only works in American English. Otherwise they're called "mobile phones". "self" plus a suffix "-ie" works in all varieties of English.
$endgroup$
– CJ Dennis
4 mins ago
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Wow, I didn't know about any of these, or that there was a selfie page. I'd assumed that astronaut cameras were set up to work only in the most conventional point and shoot configuration.
$endgroup$
– uhoh
22 hours ago
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Wow, I didn't know about any of these, or that there was a selfie page. I'd assumed that astronaut cameras were set up to work only in the most conventional point and shoot configuration.
$endgroup$
– uhoh
22 hours ago
1
1
$begingroup$
I've always assumed that selfies had to be done with smartphones, because the term includes a pun on the beginning of the word "cellphone". But I've checked a number of dictionaries and they just say that they're typically taken with a hand-held digital camera.
$endgroup$
– Barmar
11 hours ago
$begingroup$
I've always assumed that selfies had to be done with smartphones, because the term includes a pun on the beginning of the word "cellphone". But I've checked a number of dictionaries and they just say that they're typically taken with a hand-held digital camera.
$endgroup$
– Barmar
11 hours ago
4
4
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It's too bad the Apollo 12 crew couldn't get their smuggled self-timer to work. The planned portrait of the two of them standing next to Surveyor III could well have beaten Armstrong's portrait of Aldrin as "most-reproduced".
$endgroup$
– Mark
10 hours ago
$begingroup$
It's too bad the Apollo 12 crew couldn't get their smuggled self-timer to work. The planned portrait of the two of them standing next to Surveyor III could well have beaten Armstrong's portrait of Aldrin as "most-reproduced".
$endgroup$
– Mark
10 hours ago
$begingroup$
The Apollo astronauts used a custom Hasselblad 500 EL.
$endgroup$
– chrylis
5 hours ago
$begingroup$
The Apollo astronauts used a custom Hasselblad 500 EL.
$endgroup$
– chrylis
5 hours ago
$begingroup$
@Barmar That only works in American English. Otherwise they're called "mobile phones". "self" plus a suffix "-ie" works in all varieties of English.
$endgroup$
– CJ Dennis
4 mins ago
$begingroup$
@Barmar That only works in American English. Otherwise they're called "mobile phones". "self" plus a suffix "-ie" works in all varieties of English.
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– CJ Dennis
4 mins ago
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Does this very famous Apollo 11 image count as selfie? "No other Apollo photograph has been reproduced as often as this portrait of Buzz. Neil is, of course, visible in reflection on Buzz's visor."
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– Uwe
16 hours ago
2
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@Uwe Is not Neil's pic a "eifles"?
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– chux
10 hours ago
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Downvote: Selfies are cancer and should be treated as such.
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– AtmosphericPrisonEscape
7 hours ago
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@Uwe write it up as an answer! If you don't I will. See also What's the story behind this Apollo-era image?
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– uhoh
6 hours ago
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To anyone who might actually be struggling with cancer right now, or love and care for someone who is, or lost someone to cancer, please excuse the @AtmosphericPrisonEscape comment.
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– uhoh
6 hours ago