NASA is taking people to space via selfie app

Many of us wish to travel to space, but unfortunately cannot due to different reasons. For such people, NASA has figured out a perfect solution that will let users at least pretend that they are in space.

Partially fulfilling our dreams of going to space, NASA has created a selfie app where people can pretend to be in space and enjoy the spectacular adventure.

Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the launch of the Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA released a ‘NASA Selfies’ app for both Android and iOS. The process to use the app is simple, the user would have to take a picture of themselves or anyone else’s face centered in the frame via the front or the rear camera. The picture is then merely inserted into the helmet of a virtual astronaut spacesuit.

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The user can customize the background by choosing from the many space wonders like the Orion Nebula or the center of our Milky Way galaxy captured by Spitzer in the course of 15 years and save the picture to their phones. As per NASA, the app also gives information about the science behind the images captured. Users can pick from 30 images taken by Spitzer, with more images from NASA’s other science and human spaceflight missions to be added in the future.

However, previous pictures from the photo gallery can’t be updated to the app. Also, there is no share option, thus the user will have to share the photos to the #NASASelfie hashtag by going to the gallery and share it from there. The app currently only works in landscape, so a picture in portrait mode will just end up in a severed head floating in a spacesuit, described Science Alert.

Apart from NASA Selfies, it space agency also released ‘Exoplanet Excursions’, a VR experience for Oculus and HTC Vive headsets that will take users on a guided tour of the exoplanets through TRAPPIST-1 planetary system and witness rendered images of various planets.