See the Artemis II Crew’s Handwritten Notes Documenting the Lunar Surface
People like to say we have more computing power in our pockets than NASA used to get to the moon, but even that understates things. The Apollo guidance computer had a measly four kilobytes of RAM, while the iPhone 17 Pro Max has 12 gigabytes—an increase of roughly three million-fold. Of course the Artemis II astronauts who visited the moon earlier this year had state-of-the-art technology, not just housed in the vehicle, but in their pockets as well. Each one was given an iPhone 17 Pro Max (wit…