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Employees of Israeli Company Take “Space Selfie”

Employees of Israel Aerospace Industries last week gathered to pose for a “space selfie” (embedded video below) Yahoo! News reported Friday.

Three hundred employees from Israel Aerospace Industries, or IAI, arranged themselves to spell out the company’s initials, for what they call a space selfie. That’s because the selfie was taken by the company’s passing satellite — the EROS-B, which is positioned about 325 miles above Earth!

The employees had to be in a specific area in order for the space selfie to work, but luckily they were quite familiar with the satellite, since they helped build it. The company uploaded a video to YouTube, showing just how it was able to pull off the out-of-this-world pic. The snap was the company’s way of celebrating Israel Space Week.

Israel Space Week is celebrated in memory of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon who died February 1, 2003 when the American space shuttle Columbia broke apart upon re-entry.

[Photo: התעשייה האווירית לישראל IAI / YouTube ]