This. Is. So Cool.
We think it’s safe to say that this has hands down won the title of the Best Selfie of 2013.
Mike Hopkins, a NASA astronaut, snapped the pic while on a mission with fellow astronaut, Rick Mastracchio, to change a faulty water pump on the outside of the International Space Station!
NASA then took to their Instagram to show off the pic along with a caption to explain what was happening up on the ISS.
They said:
On Dec. 24, 2013, NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer, participates in the second of two U.S. spacewalks, spread over a four-day period, which were designed to allow the crew to change out a faulty water pump on the exterior of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. He was joined on both spacewalks by NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, whose image shows up in Hopkins’ helmet visor.
Today, Dec. 27, 2013, Expedition 38 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) have ventured outside the orbiting outpost to install a pair of high fidelity cameras on a platform attached to the Zvezda Service Module as part of a commercial arrangement between Roscosmos and a Canadian company to downlink Earth observation imagery. This is the last of six Russian spacewalks planned for this year. #spacewalk #astronauts #astropix #earth #nasa #iss #spacestation #exp38 #nofilter
LOLzz!!! That no filter hashtag is HIGHlarious!
But, fo’ serious, how AH-MAZING is that selfie!!!
We love it!
[Image via NASA/Instagram.]