Posted on 04/03/2026 3:47:32 AM PDT by Libloather
ET phone IT!
The Artemis II crew’s early tasks were disrupted by an issue with the shuttle’s Microsoft Outlook less than a day after blasting off into Earth’s orbit.
Reid Wiseman, the mission’s commander, reported the problem with the email app to the Houston-based mission control just seven hours after the rocket’s historic launch.
“I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working,” Wiseman could be heard saying over dispatch.
“If you want to remote in and check the Optimus and those two Outlooks that would be awesome,” he added.
Mission control said that they would join through the shuttle’s PCD, or their personal computing device, to patch the problem.
The PCD’s are specialized tablets the astronauts use to manage more menial tasks, like emailing clients back on Earth and parsing through mission manuals, throughout their 10-day voyage.
Wiseman was seen using one of the PCDs just before Wednesday’s takeoff, stunning eagle-eyed NASA fans who quickly made note of his now-formerly top secret passcode.
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Space exploration is a human endeavor.
Humans screw up.
Hence Alan Shepard’s astronaut’s prayer.
But making the same kind of mistakes over and over...
Now that is disappointing.
Apparently, the crew is outfitted with iphones.
They have to keep them in ‘Airplane Mode’, and I wanna know why NASA didn’t get a version with ‘Space Mode’.
OS/2 has always been better, more stable, than any version of Windows. I've been using OS/2 (now ARCA Noae) since the 1990's.
How is it possible that Apollo 11 could to get to the moon and back half a century ago without email service?
NASA is sooo yesterday.
Didn’t upgrade to windows 11?
There’s still time!
H1B excellence.
Exactly, we need email in space? Do they have a spam-blocker so they don’t get ads. I get about 20-30 a day with a spam blocker on my corporate system.
Well, according to Black History, it was a blackman who invented the modern water commode.
We need to unleash the wisdom of vacuum during Black History month, in the hope that someone from that line of history will step forward to relieve modern man of the present universal failure of space travel commodes.
THe problem of weightlessness ensures that the turd does not
always go down. Vacuum as a solution sucks ones ass into the commode.Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. An engineering paradox.Solve it and you will become an instantaneous millionaire.
I prefer a centifuge solution, spinning the astronaut around in circles dureing the process of defecation, so that the ejecta is trapped against the toilet bowl sides to exit up around the specially designed slotted rim upon flushing with compressed air and water.But then the astronauts are dizzy for hours after, an unpleasant side effect for the defecators, who return to earth either constipated or cross-eyed.
As Tolkein in his wisdom surmised, we must all at some point live in Bagend. Floating and shitting in a bag is not such a bad alternative.KISS.
I haven’t heard OS/2 since the 90s..
It’s still around?
“DO NOT CLICK THE THAT .EXEC FILE!!!”
“I…didn’t…”
“…Why is my screen filled with Chinese characters now…?!?”
“…Houston, we have problem…”
“Well, according to Black History, it was a blackman who invented the modern water commode.”
Thomas Crapper, an white Englishman, was the inventor of the modern toilet.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Its M$, what do you expect? Well, it could be another forced OS update ...
Probably in an infinite loop trying to find it’s location.
I can attest to seeing it in the wild as late as 2015 - saw a OS2 Warp crash screen on a US Bank ATM screen about that time.
The question is, why? And...how's that working out for you.
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