Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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NASA are finally allowing modern smartphones in space after private spaceflight has been using them for five years. But NASA has a long history of using everyday consumer electronics in spaceflight, so I thought I'd pull together a few examples of things I've seen in historic photos from space.

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