How to take a selfie in space?
Source:For real space selfie Christine Koch
Stay in the vacuum of space in orbit of the planet entails many potential hazards that can kill even the most cautious of the astronaut. However, some of them not inferior to their terrestrial habits, even in such an unpredictable place as the space. So, NASA astronaut Christine Koch managed to make one of a kind selfie on the background of the infinite Universe, while outside the International Space Station, according to the British portal .
is it Possible to do a selfie in space?
Christina Koch — the first female astronaut, set the record duration stay on the International space station (ISS). After a total of 328 days aboard the station, Koch walked around the Earth more than 5,200 times. During the flight, Koch also took part in the first all-female spacewalk together with NASA astronaut Jessica Meir. Then the astronauts were sent to fix a broken charger on a space ship.
It is Known that the ship Koh was launched to the ISS in March 2019, and since then spent 11 months in Earth orbit at an altitude of about 400 kilometers. After landing an astronaut on the Ground, 328-day stay Christina Koch will become the second-longest single space flight American astronaut. The record duration single spaceflight belongs to a retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent aboard the ISS 340 days from 2015 to 2016.
Scott Kelly — the record for the duration of a single space mission on the ISS
Kristina Koch took part in more than 210 scientific research, providing valuable data to implement long-term plans of NASA to study man in the moon in the framework of Artemis. Many of these studies were aimed at studying the effects of long-term space flights on the human body, taking into account the factors of weightlessness, of long-term isolation from the outside world, radiation, and stress. Among the most notable experiments in which Koch was involved in the course of his mission, was to study the effects of space flight on bones of the spine.
In Addition to the participation in a large number of research, Koch has also made a lot of exciting images of the Earth and what is happening in it with the ISS. One of them was the orbiting the earth and instantly became viral among Internet users. Anyway, few people know that the author of the first “space selfie” belongs to the famous buzz Aldrin, who, during his flight on the spacecraft in 1966, not only set a record for the duration of being in open space, but managed to make a historic one for all humanity “selfie”.
the First ever selfie in Earth orbit performed by buzz Aldrin
In order to realize the idea of creating a professional space photos in reality, the main space Agency of the planet ordered 53 unmodified SLR camera company with a special protective housing allows the equipment to operate in low gravity and extreme temperatures. It is also known that prior to this, NASA used cameras, the Swedish manufacturer “Hasselblad”, which at the time was lucky enough to become the official supplier of such equipment for the well-known program “Apollo”.
Despite all the power and professionalism available on the ISS technology, to make a space selfie, both inside and outside the station is not easy. The fact that the photographer-astronaut often is difficult to achieve a completely motionless state of the camera even when you are inside the International Space Station, where the perfect fit of the device is impossible to make high-quality images because of the constant vibration of this space laboratory. However, if an astronaut somehow make it work, and he is ready to present his real “star” of the photo data from the camera transmitted to the Ground through special channels of communication where they fall into the hands of the earth's specialists, and then to the media.
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