Breaking Update: Here’s a clear explanation of the latest developments related to Breaking News:Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work– What Just Happened and why it matters right now.
In 1969, the three astronauts of the Apollo 10 mission conducted a momentous “dress rehearsal” 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’s surface, then reunited to return home to Earth. It’s from this mission that we have one of the most powerful transcripts in NASA history:
“Who did what?” Young asked. “Where did that come from?” Cernan added.
“Give me a napkin quick,” Stafford said. “There’s a turd floating through the air.”
The provenance of the poop remains one of the great mysteries of spaceflight. Today, in the early Earth-morning hours of the Artemis II astronauts’ history-mirroring mission around the moon, we have another: Why is Microsoft Outlook not working in space?
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