India, April 9 -- Opening thoughts. By the time you read this, NASA's Artemis II would have set the record of taking humans further away from Earth (more than 248,665 miles) than any previous space mission. It would've also completed the lunar flyby, by then. And if all goes according to plan, the names for two moon craters, proposed to be Integrity and Carroll, would have been finalised. But the space mission is also a tale of two tech companies, since technology likes to find an intersection in most things these days. One gets a big win. And the other? Not so much.

Since I like to be positive as a habit, let's talk about Apple Inc. first. NASA using the Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max to capture stunning photos of the Earth from the Artemis II...