Intergalactic Outlook Problems
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And the Artemis mission is on its way back for the moon, preparing for a landing, I believe, off the coast of San Diego, around there. I'm here with Carmi Levy. It is time for technology time. But we're not just talking about the mission and its visit to the moon. We're talking about iPhones in space. We're talking about a Microsoft Outlook glitch that wouldn't go away in space. Carmi, welcome to the show. Good to be with you, David. Thanks for having me. The mission was kind of shorter than I thought. When's it due? I guess it's due like in an hour or like a few hours ago.
What updates are there on the Artemis II mission?
Yeah, this is not your typical, you know, International Space Station, you know, six month increment. This is a 10 day mission. So it is scheduled for reentry just off the coast of San Diego in the Pacific Ocean. Friday at 8.06 p.m. Eastern, 5.06 local time Pacific. So yeah, like basically it's out and back, right? So it took about four days to get there, four days to get back. They orbited the Earth for a little bit before they kind of checked everything before they headed off to the moon. So yeah, it's pretty quick. And given the size of this thing, there isn't a lot of room on board for food and consumables and other things. So this is about how long moon missions last.
I was expecting like months and months like the ISS. It feels like they just left and now they're back. It's just a short trip.
How did iPhones make their way into space?
So quick. But boy, did they go far.
What issues did NASA face with the Outlook glitch during the mission?
The world record, right? They went further than Apollo 13 from Earth. So for a little while there, they were, I think the number, the official number from NASA is 406,771 kilometers at its furthest from Earth as it was rounding the moon when they were out of orbit. When they were out of position. The previous record was just over 400,000 from Apollo 13 in 1970.
What's the circumference of the Earth? About 40,000? Like if you were to drive all the way around the Earth at the equator or whatever. I think it's about 40,000 kilometers.
So it's 10 times.
Yeah. further than going around the Earth once is how far they were.
Does that make sense? Exactly. Now, of course, you would run out of oxygen if you tried that in a real car. But yeah, it's very, very far. 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
just beyond stunning and for anyone who hasn't seen them do go to the nasa.gov website and look for them because they are awesome and a lot of these photos were taken were just iphones which is wild they allowed the astronauts to bring iphones in space i don't know why they didn't allow them to bring smartphones on like the iss for so long and then they changed the rules but why shouldn't they have their smartphones i'm trying to think like this was a big story because the astronauts were finally allowed to bring iphones why weren't they allowing them before
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.
I wonder if they put in special batteries or something, like really safe batteries that were checked 100 times so they wouldn't explode kind of thing.
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