What impresses me most isn't the iPhone going to the Moon it's the approval process. NASA was still using a 2010 Nikon camera on Artemis II because their certification process is extremely rigorous. Glass fragments floating in zero gravity, radiation, extreme temperatures… approving a consumer smartphone for all of that is a real paradigm shift for the agency.
What impresses me most isn't the iPhone going to the Moon it's the approval process. NASA was still using a 2010 Nikon camera on Artemis II because their certification process is extremely rigorous. Glass fragments floating in zero gravity, radiation, extreme temperatures… approving a consumer smartphone for all of that is a real paradigm shift for the agency.