14 DAY TRIAL // Going on a mission into space is serious business, but that doesn’t mean astronauts on the job can’t take a few moments and enjoy some of the simple pleasures in life, like selfie taking.
The next selfie-centric story focuses on the crew on the International Space Station which was out and about doing their usual, scheduled space walks.
While doing so, two astronauts took the opportunity to immortalize some of the moments of their mission, but not before turning the camera around and snapping some of the coolest selfies of all times.
The astronauts posing for the shots were Reid Wiseman and Alexander Gerst and they used a Nikon D2Xs camera with Nikkor 10.55mm fisheye lens, which has been designed for space photography.
It’s quite eerie to see the Earth floating in the background behind the astronauts’ armored bodies, but at the same time one can’t help but take in the cold beauty that’s representative of the self-portraits.
The other shots, some of which you can check out in the gallery below, detail key moments of the operation and have been shared by NASA on their official Flickr page.
It's worthy to mention that the Nikon D2Xs used to capture these fantastic shots, is a camera that launched in 2004, but you can see for yourselves the results are quite spectacular regardless of the fact that the astronauts didn't use the latest gear.
The spacewalk during which the selfies were shot was 6 hours long and was part of Expedition 41 on the International Space Station.
