Washington, July 25 (ANI): About 16,000 people paid 29-dollar-apiece for a 'space selfie,' where an orbiting space telescope will click its own external screen displaying the buyer's image, with the Earth in the background.
The images are a part of a 1.5 million-dollar-Kickstarter-crowdfunding campaign by Planetary Resources, a company that is backed by a group of billionaires whose interests lies in pursuing space exploration and asteroid mining for precious minerals, Stuff.com.nz reported.
Although the campaign just closed, for 250 dollars, people can aim the telescope at themselves for five minutes and click images of celestial objects that they choose, and the top 10 benefactors will have their names and a message etched on the spacecraft.
Planetary Resources President Chris Lewicki, a former NASA flight director, explained that the satellite telescope, named ARKYD 100, which is slated to launch in 2015, is going to serve as a sort of 'robotic prospector,' for future mining missions. (ANI)
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