5 Apple products that have flown to space

Image: SpaceX We all love our Apple products, and so does NASA! While you may think the space industry is dominated by custom-built computers and PCs, well, it kind of still is. Apple’s products show up quite often in commercial and NASA-led missions. Here are five Apple products that have flown to space. iPads The most prominent and easy-to-find product, Apple’s iPad is a go-to item for both SpaceX and NASA. Used primarily as electronic notebooks by NASA, you’ll see astronauts using various models across the International Space Station. With Velcro attached to the back, these can be stuck to walls, legs, or pretty much anything on the station for easy glancing while performing experiments or procedures in space. SpaceX uses the iPad even more prominently during crewed launches in the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. What we assume are Apple’s iPad minis can be seen during launch and flight by Dragon’s crew members as pilot kneeboards and notebooks with all the information crew me ... Read full article.