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NASA astronauts prove that sending an email really is rocket science
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Before the Orion spacecraft even launched on Wednesday, NASA’s Artemis II moon mission, the first in 50 years, had already weathered a storm of complex challenges, like hydrogen and helium leaks, a faulty heat shield, and technical issues with its safety system.
Key facts
- In the first of their 10 planned days in space, Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman was having trouble using Microsoft Outlook, so he contacted Mission Control for tech support, according
- We wanted to let Reid know we are done remoting into his PCD 1,” the person at Mission Control said
- Before the Orion spacecraft even launched on Wednesday, NASA’s Artemis II moon mission, the first in 50 years, had already weathered a storm of complex challenges, like hydrogen and helium leaks
- The toilet fan is reported to be jammed,” NASA spokesperson Gary Jordan said, according to a transcription from Space.com
Summary
In the first of their 10 planned days in space, Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman was having trouble using Microsoft Outlook, so he contacted Mission Control for tech support, according to the livestream of launch communications. Right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer.