David Cooper

Depends on the car, I guess.

Yeah, I guess.

And the photos they've been posting from the lunar flyby of the moon,

of like the earth the earth they're calling it earth set photo which is kind of like a successor to the earth rise photo from apollo 8 i mean these are iconic photos and i've been going through uh nasa's gallery online and downloading the high-res versions of them then they are

I mean, a lot of it had to do with safety.

Consumer electronics, of course, they have lithium ion batteries.

We know that they have thermal issues that they can potentially catch fire when they do.

They're kind of like Roman candles.

It's bad enough on Earth.

I mean, we've had stories of...

Fires on planes, and that's scary.

It's even worse in space.

Obviously, it could be catastrophic.

So NASA had some very strict rules for much of its history about approving devices for flight.

And they would have to test them.

In many cases, they would have to modify them, change the batteries, put different equipment on them or around them before they were allowed to be taken into space.

And smartphones were certainly part of that.

Yeah, in many cases, they did.

And you can actually see it on a lot of their cameras.

They have these jury-rigged battery compartments that clearly were not included in the original model.