There are selfies, and then there’s my space selfie, a photo that quite literally has Earth as its backdrop.

Thanks to the Space Selfie project by Mark Rober and CrunchLabs, I got to send a picture of my family into orbit aboard the SAT GUS satellite and have it photographed against the majestic curve of our planet.

🚀 How It Happened

I uploaded my photo through the Space Selfie website (linked below). Once my image was approved, it was sent up to the SAT GUS satellite, a small spacecraft launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in January 2025 that orbits Earth at around 17,000 miles per hour.

Onboard, a Google Pixel display showed my selfie, and the satellite’s onboard camera captured a new shot of that display, this time with the Earth floating in the background. That’s when the photo was captured and sent back to me, taken from hundreds of miles above Earth

https://space.crunchlabs.com/