After experiencing a Microsoft Outlook outage shortly after entering orbit this week, today Artemis II astronauts reported that Teams was also not working either for some reason.
“Hey, just seeing this—I think there’s a Teams outage too, which would explain why for hours we haven’t heard any of its wonderful notification sounds,” wrote Mission Commander Reid Wiseman in an e-mail back to NASA mission control members asking why his Teams status had been in yellow “Be Right Back” status all day. “So sorry I missed that impromptu one-on-one call—I know whatever we would have talked about on the last day of the work week would have been awesome to think about all weekend.”
Asked what work they got done while waiting for Microsoft Outlook and Teams to come back online, the astronauts said plenty.
“Did we find or do anything cool? Nah, just did some spring cleaning around the motherboard,” Reid said, unaware he was clearly visible by satellite floating in a moon crater pool of some sort with a pina colada in-hand. “It was actually so nice to just concentrate on a task for a few hours without Outlook and Teams notifications going off every five minutes—got a lot done. So cool that today’s technology allows us to work from anywhere, even the moon—well at least most of the time! ;).”
At press time, the mission’s entire Microsoft Office suite had reportedly also crashed, unfortunately leaving the crew no choice but to leave work early ahead of Easter weekend and start mapping out which moon craters they’re gonna hide eggs in.
