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In 1962, the NASA Mariner 1 spacecraft was intentionally destroyed after launch due to a guidance system failure traced
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The mission failure supposedly cost $18.5 million at the time, which would be more than $200 million today.
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- The mission failure supposedly cost $18.5 million at the time, which would be more than $200 million today
- Trello would be useful, obviously, and Zoom seems appropriate for a vessel traveling 17,500 mph, or 4.9 miles per second
- Has someone sent Wiseman a particularly high-resolution video file of NASA's coverage of the launch, all 6 hours and 22 minutes of it, thereby exceeding his OneDrive limit
- WIRED has contacted both NASA and Microsoft for a more detailed explanation on the email outage
Summary
About seven hours into the flight of Artemis II, Commander Reid Wiseman experienced something many earthbound Microsoft users know all too well: his Outlook email stopped working. Speaking with mission control in Houston, Commander Wiseman can be heard saying that he had “two Microsoft Outlooks , and neither one of those are working.” PCD stands for “Personal Computing Device”, which are specialized laptops or tablets, used by the Artemis astronauts to manage certain tasks, including accessing email clients, during the 10-day mission to the moon. Wiseman then asks Houston, “If you want to remote in and check … those two Outlooks that would be awesome.” Houston then confirms they are going to log into his PCD and let the commander “know when they are done.
WIRED has contacted both NASA and Microsoft for a more detailed explanation on the email outage. Has someone sent Wiseman a particularly high-resolution video file of NASA's coverage of the launch, all 6 hours and 22 minutes of it, thereby exceeding his OneDrive limit?