In 1969, the three astronauts of the Apollo 10 mission conducted a momentous \u201cdress rehearsal\u201d for putting humans on the lunar surface for the first time. It was a historic, inspiring moment for humanity; Astronaut John Young watched from a command module spacecraft as Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan broke away and flew a lunar module within 10 miles of the moon\u2019s surface, then reunited to return home to Earth. It\u2019s from this mission that we have one of the most powerful transcripts in NASA history:\u00a0\u201cWho did what?\u201d Young asked. \u201cWhere did that come from?\u201d Cernan added.\u201cGive me a napkin quick,\u201d Stafford said. \u201cThere\u2019s a turd floating through the air.\u201dThe provenance of the poop remains one of the great mysteries of spaceflight. Today, in the early Earth-morning hours of the Artemis II astronauts\u2019 history-mirroring mission around the moon, we have another: Why is Microsoft Outlook not working in space?\u00a0On April 1, four astronauts from the U.S. and Canada embarked on a 10-day flight to loop around the moon. Spotted by VGBees podcast host Niki Grayson on the NASA livestream of live views from the , around 2 a.m. ET, Kennedy Space Center mission control acknowledges an issue with a process control system and offers to remote in\u2014yes, like how your office IT guy would pause his CoD campaign to log into Okta for you because you used the wrong password too many times. One of the astronauts, Reid Wiseman, says that\u2019s chill, but while they\u2019re in there: \u201cI also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working.\u201d\u00a0right 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\u2014 niki grayson (@nikigrayson.com) 2026-04-02T06:06:53.835ZAstronauts are trained for decades in some of the most physically and mentally grueling environments of any career. They\u2019re some of the smartest people on the planet, and they have to be, before we strap them to 3.2 million pounds of jet fuel and make them do complex experiments and high-stakes decisions for days on end. And yet, once they get up there, fucking Outlook is borked.\u00a0I scanned through the next several minutes after this moment and didn\u2019t hear them address the duplicate Outlooks again. So, I emailed the Artemis II communications team, who is definitely not busy today I\u2019m sure, and asked: Can the astronauts check their email yet?I\u2019ll update if I hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"