Astronaut Don Pettit recently spent five months at the International Space Station. During his tour, Pettit took a record one million photos. Unfortunately, when the photos were downloaded, NASA was shocked that most of the photos were selfies.

“Here’s me with the polar ice cap in the background,” Pettit said. “Here’s me over Australia-g’day mate. Here’s me over France. Parlez vous francais? Here’s me with the moon in the background. Oh, here’s one with me and that rare comet that went by.”

When asked why there were so many selfies, Pettit had a reasonable explanation.

“I kept meaning to go through them and delete the bad ones, like where my eyes are closed, or I have a weird smile, or duplicates, but I never get around to it. Besides, NASA has like an infinite amount of cloud storage.”

“We did before DOGE visited,” A NASA spokesperson clarified.

When Nasa sorted the images, it was discovered that over 600,000 of the images were duplicates because Pettit did not know how to properly use the burst feature. Of the other photos, 7,000+ were accidental photos of the walls or floor of the ISS, 90,000 were pictures of Pettit’s face because he had the lens reversed, and 6,290 were of his butt.

“I meant to delete those,” Pettit said.”You can get pretty bored in space.”

When asked which of the photos was his favorite, Pettit whispered, “The one labelled ‘Mooning the Moon.’”

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