Great Job, Internet!: Artemis II is having very relatable problems with Microsoft Outlook

Maybe the brave men and women on their way to the moon should try uninstalling and reinstalling Co-Pilot? 

Great Job, Internet!: Artemis II is having very relatable problems with Microsoft Outlook

Astronauts, they’re just like us. Yesterday, Artemis II began its historic 10-day flight from the Earth to the moon to the Earth. With astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen cramped in their tiny rocket as they chart a path for future moon missions, they’ll have plenty of time to go through their inbox, delete some newsletters they’ll never get around to, and maybe even take a peek at the SPAM folder. Who knows, maybe something good got stuck in there. What else are they going to do, look out the window? 

Unfortunately for the crew, Earthbound problems remain even in the darkest reaches of space. As caught on Artemis’ livestream by VGBees podcast host Niki Grayson, at around 2 a.m. EST, astronaut Wiseman reported something that has plagued humanity for nigh on three decades. “I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working,” Reisman reported. “If you wanna remote in and check Optimus and those two Outlooks, that would be awesome.” 

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

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— niki grayson (@nikigrayson.com) April 1, 2026 at 11:06 PM

Like any IT professional worth their weight in salt, Houston attempted to remote into Reisman’s personal computing device, a Microsoft Surface, per Engadget, and service the issue. Though we have not heard whether the rescue attempt was successful or not, we’re going to go ahead and blame SharePoint, but that’s pure speculation. Let this be a lesson: Next time you take a trip to the moon, please, for the love of God, update your devices while you’re on terrestrial Wi-Fi.

 
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