If you've been following NASA's Artemis II mission, you're probably already aware of all the milestones its intrepid crew of four astronauts are due to set.
Among the crew will be three trailblazers of spaceflight: the first woman, the first Black man and the first Canadian to venture within the vicinity of the moon. And all four of them are due to travel the farthest that any humans have ever been from Earth.
All worthy accolades, no doubt.
But there's also another, less prestigious way in which the spacefarers are due to make a little bit of history: They're among the first government astronauts to bring their iPhones and Androids into space.
Under a new NASA policy, astronauts on the space agency's missions are now permitted to take the latest smartphones with them when they venture beyond the bounds of Earth. The updated guidelines for what crew members can bring with them on cosmic ventures went into effect ahead of the February launch of a SpaceX mission known as Crew-12.
