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So amazing! Today they would have mounted the grip in the other direction… it’s very difficult to make selfies with this grip…

• giraffe_lady 4y ago
  mmm p sure he literally took what we would now call selfies with it sorry to ruin that for u.
  • caseysoftware 4y ago
    Wasn't he the only human definitely not in any of the pictures?
    • ben7799 4y ago
      He was the only human period, Mercury was a single seat ride!
      • estebank 4y ago
        What GP meant is that he was taking a picture of Earth, hence every living human but him was in the picture. That doesn't quite work for Mercury given the orbit, but certainly does for the pictures taken in the Apollo missions.
    • dylan604 4y ago
      The old adage of the only way to ensure you're not in the picture is to be the one taking the picture doesn't really work now. Now it seems to be reversed. The only way to be sure you are in the picture is to take a selfie
• syncsynchalt 4y ago
  Difficult but not impossible — I think there's a "selfie" halfway down the article. > "A photo of astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. aboard the “Friendship 7” Mercury spacecraft during the Mercury-Atlas 6 spaceflight." The grain and quality seem to match the external photos, so I think it's the same camera. John must have had enough media training to know not to spike the camera like we usually do for selfies, he's valiantly scanning the horizon instead.