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The four astronauts aboard the Integrity spacecraft are now heading home Historical arc around the moon They’re really like the rest of us: sometimes they get their way Smartphones To take pictures.
For the second Artemis mission, iPhone 17 Pro Max Phones were used to take photos inside the astronauts’ capsule as they took in views of Earth and worked on mission objectives. (Technically, NASA refers to them as PCDs – Personal Computing Devices.)
Smartphones were It has been cleared for use in space For the first time in February. In a Share on X“We are giving our crews the tools to capture special moments for their families and share inspiring photos and videos with the world,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman wrote.
Artemis 2 mission commander Reed Wiseman looks out the window at Earth. Photo taken with iPhone 17 Pro Max.
Early in the mission, Commander Reed Wiseman picked up A husband to photo He looks out the window and the ground behind him. Mission Specialist Christina Koch Her dynamic curls in zero gravity also captured a pensive view of the planet. All three are made with a front-facing camera, because wouldn’t you want to take a selfie if you were in space?
Christina Koch, Artemis 2 mission specialist, looks out the window at the ground.
The iPhone 17 Pro’s rear cameras pull their weight during the task, too. During the live broadcast as the crew approached the Moon, Weissman took a shot A picture of the moon’s surface Using the iPhone’s telephoto camera at 8x zoom. He turned the screen toward one of the video cameras installed inside the spacecraft, creating an image of the lunar surface alone in the darkness of the unlit cabin, with the iPhone’s signature rounded edges and a Dynamic Island hole at the top.
Artemis II mission commander Reed Wiseman holds up his iPhone 17 Pro Max and shows a photo of the moon he took using the telephoto camera at 8x zoom.
The main photography tools on this trip are a Nikon D5 DSLR and a Nikon Z9. The D5 is a model that has been used on several spaceflights, and the Z9 is on board as an experimental camera.
For NASA missions, every piece of equipment must be tested and certified, which is why the pre-certified D5 has a safe place. The cameras must be resistant to space environmental factors such as radiation, and safe if they are floating around the capsule. However, iPhones in space are now ready-to-use models, according to A CNN’s Jackie Wattis reports.
The flyby was particularly intense, with the astronauts switching places several times so that two of them were always at the windows with cameras and correlating what they could see with their eyes. this image Capturing images with one of the Nikon cameras, mission specialist and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen explains how the camera covers were attached to some of the windows. The shroud ensures that light from inside does not reflect onto the glass.
Artemis II mission specialist Jeremy Hansen takes photos of the moon through a window shade using a Nikon camera. His photo was taken with an iPhone 17 Pro Max.
In particular Related imageHansen also uses the front camera of the white iPhone 17 Pro – as a handheld mirror while shaving. As the (modified) saying goes, the best selfie screen is the one you have with you.
Artemis II mission specialist Jeremy Hansen uses his iPhone 17 Pro as a mirror while shaving.
iPhone 17 Pro is not it The first Apple product to go into space. Crew members have used iPods, iPads, and AirPods on missions since the Space Shuttle era. The Mac Portable even boarded a shuttle (revealing that its trackball in zero gravity isn’t the best option).
An Apple representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.