Thursday, January 2, 2014

Velocity Alert: NASA Space Selfie Is Out of This World

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NASA Space Selfie Is Out of This World

The selfie phenomenon has gone into orbit. Astronaut Mike Hopkins, a flight engineer on NASA's Expedition 38, was the subject of an out-of-this-world selfie on Christmas Eve, during the second of two spacewalks on the International Space Station. The image was posted on NASA's website.

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