--- title: Astronaut’s Selfie Is Out of This World description: It is terrifying canonical: https://time.com/74541/astronaut-selfie-spacewalk-rich-mastracchio/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-23T21:30:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:28:09.086Z article:section: Science og:title: Astronaut’s Selfie Is Out of This World og:description: It is terrifying og:url: https://time.com/74541/astronaut-selfie-spacewalk-rich-mastracchio/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Astronaut’s Selfie Is Out of This World twitter:description: It is terrifying twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Astronaut's Selfie Is Out of This World  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Apr 23, 2014 9:30 PM UTC  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Apr 23, 2014 9:30 PM UTC > [](https://twitter.com/AstroRM/status/459049770049236992) NASA astronaut Rich Mastracchio aboard the International Space Station took a seriously impressive selfie Wednesday during an EVA—short for Extra-Vehicular Activity. That’s astronaut-ese for spacewalk. As one might imagine, the confines of a spacesuit make it difficult to snap a proper selfie, but he was able to pull it off after a few tries. Mastracchio may win for coolest selfie ever with this one. At least we can say it’s not the coolest selfie on earth. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/74541/astronaut-selfie-spacewalk-rich-mastracchio/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/74541/astronaut-selfie-spacewalk-rich-mastracchio/"},"headline":"Astronaut's Selfie Is Out of This World","datePublished":"2014-04-23T21:30:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:28:09.086Z","description":"It is terrifying","url":"https://time.com/74541/astronaut-selfie-spacewalk-rich-mastracchio/","keywords":["NASA","selfie","Outer Space","iss"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/nasa/","name":"NASA"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/74541/astronaut-selfie-spacewalk-rich-mastracchio/","name":"Astronaut's Selfie Is Out of This World"}}]}] ```