Space Selfies Are Go! Groundbreaking Orbital Camera Gets Funding

? That's old news. How about taking a picture of yourself in orbit, with the entire Earth as your backdrop?

That will be possible in the next few years, now that the Arkyd Space Telescope has met the $1 million goal on Kickstarter that it . The Arkyd is the brainchild of Planetary Resources, an asteroid mining company launched last year with backing from a handful of Google and Microsoft billionaires.

The Arkyd is set to be launched around 2015, on a mission of hunting for viable asteroids to mine for trillions of dollars in minerals; it already had funding for the launch part