By Jeremy White
Publication Date: 2026-04-02 15:59:00
About seven hours into the flight of Artemis II, Commander Reid Wiseman experienced something many Earth-bound 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 [on his PCD], 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. PCDs are crucial for the four-person crew to interact with mission data and communicate during the historic lunar flyby, which will also take them further into space than any humans have gone before.
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 we are done.”…
