Is this a problem? If you want to play your favorite iPhone game, then yes, it is. It’s just a case of which one gets to it first!

So, whatever way you look at it, your cellphone will fall victim to the extreme heat or extreme cold up in space. Take it up to unimaginably freezing conditions in space then it’s safe to say that those issues would worsen. In cold conditions on Earth, touch screens can stop working, and batteries will drain incredibly quickly. It might not come as much of a surprise, but… So with all these factors in mind, it makes you wonder what NASA’s policy actually is on them? And to top it off, it would destroy itself anyway. The presence of a phone on the space station could also be a hazard due to their susceptibility to interfering with radio communications.

Phone calls and text messaging would not be possible because the phones are so out of range from Earth. So, can astronauts use cellphones in space ? They can, but they won’t be much use, nor will they last long. So, do astronauts get a chance for a cellphone detox up in space? Can they send a text message? Check their email? Or use their favorite app? Does Apple send them special phones with a ‘spaceflight mode’? Let’s find out! But they’ve become such a fundamental tool in our everyday life that we just seem to find that screen time racking up and up. Or at least, that we want to spend less time on them. Cellphones, hey? We all say we need to spend less time on them.

Astronaut on phone