NASA did eventually solve Artemis II’s Outlook glitch

On Thursday, during Artemis II’s travel to the Moon, commandant Reid Wiseman ran into a tech rumor immoderate of america backmost connected Earth tin subordinate to: Microsoft Outlook wasn’t working. In a speech captured successful NASA’s Artemis livestream and shared connected Bluesky, Wiseman reported to Mission Control: “I besides spot that I person 2 Microsoft Outlooks and neither 1 of those are working.”

To return attraction of the issue, Mission Control had to remotely entree Wiseman’s individual computing instrumentality (PCD), a Microsoft Surface Pro. During a property convention connected Thursday, Artemis formation head Judd Frieling said NASA had fixed the issue, stating, “This is not uncommon. We person this on-station each the time. You know, sometimes Outlook has issues getting configured, particularly erstwhile you don’t person a web that’s straight connected. And truthful fundamentally we conscionable had to reload his files connected Outlook to get it working.”

NASA uses a operation of its Near Space Network and Deep Space Network to enactment successful touch pinch Artemis II, relying connected a operation of antennas astir the world and satellites successful orbit. Mission Control astatine the Johnson Space Center successful Houston, Texas, has to displacement communications betwixt these networks arsenic Artemis II gets farther distant from Earth.

Aside from the Microsoft Surface Pro, the Artemis II crew’s gear list besides includes Nikon D5 DSLR cameras, a ZCube video encoder, and handheld GoPro cameras for filming contented for a Disney / National Geographic documentary. The unit was besides allowed to bring their phones pinch them — you tin moreover spot their phones being stowed distant successful their spacesuit pockets in NASA’s livestream.