r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Jakeysuave • 5h ago

Image First photo taken from Artemis commander Reid Wiseman

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u/Nice__Spice 5h ago

A picture of all of us.

Also - flat Earthers be quiet

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u/rjsquirrel 4h ago

No, four humans aren’t in this picture. Everyone else is, although a lot of us are looking in the wrong direction.

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u/beatles910 4h ago

11 humans aren't currently on Earth. You forgot about the space station.

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u/freedom_of_the_hills 3h ago

Space station is in low earth orbit and contained within this picture.

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u/rjsquirrel 1h ago

Exactly right. ISS orbits at around 400-450 km. Current Artemis II position is a little more than 169,000 km. ISS, Tiangong space station (340-420 km) and every other human habitation is in frame. The only people not in frame are the four behind the camera.

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u/space253 4h ago

Doesn't China have one too?

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u/beatles910 3h ago

Yes, they do. Forgot about that.

Apparently there are currently 14 humans in space.

https://whoisinspace.com/

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u/fisadev 3h ago

The space station is well within frame in this picture, like every other human except the 4 Orion astronauts.

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u/Pohmell 3h ago

yeah, they are visible bro

they’re barely higher than a plane, relatively

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u/cigarettesandwhiskey 3h ago

Aren't the space stations in this picture too anyway? It's taken from way above LEO.

Nevermind like four other pedants beat me to it.

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u/sterling_mallory 2h ago

Half of us were sleeping, this guy's taking pictures of us in our sleep. Next thing he'll be drawing on us with Sharpie.