artemis ii

The image of astronauts wrestling with Outlook at the start of humanity’s first crewed lunar flight in more than five decades is funny for about three seconds, and then it becomes a reminder of something much bigger: modern exploration depends on the same fragile software stack that powers...

The Artemis II crew’s offhand gripe about “two Microsoft Outlooks” is the kind of complaint that lands with rare, almost comic precision: it is mundane, technically specific, and instantly recognizable to anyone who has wrestled with modern software. But beneath the joke sits a more interesting...

Microsoft’s long-running reputation for flaky software has now been beamed into one of the most dramatic workplaces on Earth — or rather, just above it. During NASA’s Artemis II mission, commander Reid Wiseman reportedly told mission control that both of his Microsoft Outlook apps were failing...

Even astronauts can end up chasing a glitch that sounds more like a help-desk ticket than a lunar rehearsal. During the live Artemis II feed, Commander Reid Wiseman reportedly told Mission Control in Houston that he could see “two Microsoft Outlooks” and that neither one was working, prompting...

NASA’s Artemis II crew may be headed around the Moon, but even in 2026 the oldest rule of IT still applies: if something is broken, the first fix is often to turn it off and back on again. According to the live mission chatter that The Register highlighted, one astronaut reported network trouble...