By Jibin Joseph
Publication Date: 2026-04-03 12:57:00
The Artemis II mission has left Earth orbit to fly around the moon without any major hiccups, but the crew on board the Orion spacecraft encountered an issue familiar to most office workers: trouble logging into Microsoft Outlook.
On the first day of the 10-day mission, a radio exchange between Commander Reid Wiseman and Houston Mission Control caught the attention of a Bluesky user and went viral. (You can watch or listen to the stream on YouTube.)
Wiseman had reached out to Houston for help with issues he faced on his personal computing device (PCD), a Microsoft Surface Pro. An engineer responded, saying the issue may lie with the Optimus software on his PCD and that they could resolve it by remotely connecting to the device.
Wiseman gave them the nod and mentioned the other problem he had run into. “I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working. If you want to remote in and check Optimus and those two Outlooks, that…