NASA Now Allowing Astronauts to Bring Their iPhones on Space Missions

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman connected Wednesday announced that NASA astronauts volition soon beryllium permitted to alert with "the latest smartphones," opening with the SpaceX Crew-12 and Artemis II missions implicit the adjacent fewer months.


In an email, an Apple spokesperson said this volition people the archetypal clip the iPhone has been afloat qualified for extended usage successful orbit and beyond.

NASA astronauts were antecedently not allowed to transportation their ain idiosyncratic smartphones connected abstraction flights, but they did let immoderate approved DSLR cameras and different equipment. With smartphones, Isaacman said astronauts volition beryllium capable to "capture peculiar moments for their families and stock inspiring images and video with the world."

It is unclear precisely which iPhone models person been qualified.
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