NASA has lifted a long-standing ban on the use of modern smartphones on manned missions. Current phones will be sent to the ISS with Crew 12, and then to the Moon on the Artemis 2 mission. Previously, the agency only allowed older devices or individual experiments due to complex certification procedures and concerns about radiation and memory failure, although in practice these risks have long been considered moderate. Prior to this, astronauts used older iPads and iPod Touches with 2016 chips, while the Orion spacecraft was equipped with 2014 GoPro cameras. Exceptions were experiments like Callisto on Artemis 1 and the private Polaris Dawn and Fram2 missions, where modern smartphones and MacBook Pros with M-processors worked without issue. The initiative was championed by Jared Isaacman, who called the decision "a small step in the right direction."
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