Astronauts will now have the ability to carry trendy smartphones on house missions, according to a tweet this week from NASA administrator Jared Isaacman. Isaacman mentioned the coverage will start with SpaceX Crew-12 and Artemis II.
The SpaceX Crew-12 mission is scheduled to launch Feb. 11 and can carry 4 astronauts to the Worldwide House Station. NASA’s Artemis II mission is anticipated to launch in March; it’ll ship 4 astronauts on a 10-day flight that may circle the Moon and return to Earth.
“We’re giving our crews the instruments to seize particular moments for his or her households and share inspiring photographs and video with the world,” Isaacman wrote.
NASA astronauts will quickly fly with the most recent smartphones, starting with Crew-12 and Artemis II. We’re giving our crews the instruments to seize particular moments for his or her households and share inspiring photographs and video with the world. Simply as vital, we challenged long-standing…
— NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (@NASAAdmin) February 5, 2026
An Apple consultant famous in an e-mail to CNET that this was “the primary time [the] iPhone has been totally certified for prolonged use in orbit and past.”
“Till now, astronauts had been largely restricted to legacy cameras and older imaging tools,” the spokesperson mentioned.
NASA didn’t point out particular telephone manufacturers or fashions in its tweet.
Ars Technica reported that house missions presently use 2016 Nikon DSLR and GoPro cameras.
Pictures has performed an vital position in house missions because the Apollo missions of the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies. Apollo 11 astronauts, the primary people to step on the moon, captured iconic images of their famed July 1969 mission with specifically modified Hasselblad cameras.
