--- title: NASA App Lets You Take Selfies in Outer Space description: Forget about snapping selfies everywhere you go. 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Named editors include Richard Hall (The Brief), Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs (Inside TIME), Eliza Berman (Worth Your Time), Philip Elliott (D.C. Brief), Justin Worland (Future Proof) and Harry Booth (In the Loop). Health Matters is written by TIME's health desk. #### How do I sign up for a TIME newsletter? Go to time.com/newsletters, choose the newsletters you want and enter your email address. There is no cost and no subscription requirement. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-network-2026q3/newsletters?i=4878db89-fa8f-424b-a5c7-4a34493e7654&cr=time-nl-network-2026q3-v1) ## Video: Americans Just Took on Russia in Outer Space's First Badminton Game [Watch (HLS stream): Americans Just Took on Russia in Outer Space's First Badminton Game](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/mTFXqShd.m3u8) (0:48)  _Published 2018-02-07. Elon Musk may have caught a ton of headlines Tuesday with SpaceX’s launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket, but aboard the International Space Station (ISS), another first was also taking place: Space’s first badminton game._  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 24, 2018 3:11 PM UTC Elon Musk may have caught a ton of headlines Tuesday with SpaceX’s launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket, but aboard the International Space Station (ISS), another first was also taking place: Space’s first badminton game.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 24, 2018 3:11 PM UTC Forget about snapping [self-portraits](http://time.com/5202198/self-portraits-selfies/) of yourself everywhere you go. Now you can take [selfies](http://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/selfies-bigger-nose) in [outer space](http://time.com/5373355/nasa-tennis/) without ever leaving the comfort of your own home. Thanks to NASA’s new app, selfie-lovers can find out how they would look in a spacesuit without going through the rigorous training it takes to become an astronaut. “The new NASA Selfies app lets you generate snapshots of yourself in a virtual spacesuit, posing in front of gorgeous cosmic locations, like the Orion Nebula or the center of the Milky Way galaxy,” NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory [explains](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7220). “The simple interface means you just snap a photo of yourself, pick your background, and share on social media.” To top it all off, the 30 different backgrounds are all real photos of space captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary on Saturday. 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