A while back, Mark Rober launch his own satellite on a rocket into space. It has a screen that flips out of the satellite and displays uploaded pictures. Then a camera takes a picture of the screen with earth in the background and voia: space selfie!
He posted an excellent video about the process of building it and there is at least one other video where he talks about the launch.
Everyone can use this service for free spaceselfie.com, but as you can imagine, there is an enormous line of people who have uploaded their pictures. We happen to love the Crunch Labs build boxes and are currently subscribing to them for Elijah so we got to jump towards the front of the line. Here’s our space selfie. In the background you can see the west coast of the US (camera facing south) with Puget Sound in the foreground.
This is obviously very easy to fake, but it’s awesome to look at that and know that it really happened!
We have had other monthly box subscription things, but we love this Crunch Labs box the best. One of my favorite parts is that each box has a ~20 minute video of Mark giving a fun science lesson related to the build. This post isn’t sponsored, but if you subscribe using this link, you’ll get $10 off your first order and we’ll get a store credit too.