NASA had to “reload” Microsoft Outlook after the Artemis II glitch

On Thursday, during Artemis 2’s mission to the Moon, Commander Reed Wiseman encountered a technical problem that some of us on Earth can relate to: Microsoft Outlook was not working. In a conversation captured on NASA’s Artemis live stream,… Shared on BlueskyWeissman reported to Mission Control: “I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlook programs and neither of them are working.”

To deal with this problem, Mission Control had to remotely access Wiseman’s personal computing device (PCD), a Microsoft Surface Pro. During a press conference on Thursday, Artemis flight director Judd Freeling said He said NASA fixed the problemexplaining, “This is not uncommon. We have this on the terminal all the time. You know, Outlook sometimes has configuration issues, especially when you don’t have a directly connected network. So we just had to reload it onto Outlook to get it to work.”

NASA uses a combination of Close to the Space Network and the Deep Space Network To stay in touch with Artemis II, it relies on a combination of antennas around the world and satellites in orbit. Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, has to switch communications between these networks as Artemis II approaches Earth.

Aside from the Microsoft Surface Pro, the Artemis II crew Gear list Also included are Nikon D5 DSLR cameras, ZCube video encoder, and GoPro handheld cameras for shooting content for a Disney/National Geographic documentary. The crew was too They are allowed to bring their phones With them – you can even see their phones hidden in the pockets of their space suits On NASA’s live broadcast.