SpaceX's 'Inspiration4' mission will start on September 15.
This is the first launch for four citizens inside the Crew Dragon spacecraft, which will orbit the Earth for three days before descending into the Atlantic Ocean.
To monitor the state of health and the changes that the human body undergoes of people who do not have the experience and training of an astronaut, SpaceX will equip everyone with Apple Watch Series 6, iPhone 12 Pro and iPad mini.
During the mission, Apple Watch will collect electocardiogram (ECG) trends, movement, sleep, heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, cabin noise, and light intensity. The data will be collected by the Crew Dragon instrumentation but also by the Cognition app on the iPad mini, a software used by various researches funded by NASA. The iPhone 12 Pro will instead be paired with the Butterfly IQ + Ultrasound device, a portable ultrasound device, to scan the crew organs. The assessment will help determine if clinical-grade images can be acquired without ground assistance.
Other tests include collecting and examining blood droplets using a vertical flow immunoassay device (VFI), balance and perception assessments, and biomedical sample collection. For the latter, SpaceX collaborates with the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) of Baylor College of Medicine and experts from Weill Cornell Medicine.