Artemis II is a test flight. That means that for all of the groundbreaking science crew members have conducted during their journey, one of their main goals is simply to see how all of the new systems and technologies that have been developed for the mission perform when they’re actually sent into outer space.For the most part, things have gone remarkably well. The most important systems that need to work — like propulsion, navigation and life support — have operated with very few issues. But that doesn’t mean everything has gone as hoped.Despite the years that NASA spent planning the mission, there were inevitably going to be hiccups along the way. These are some of the small, and in some cases extremely relatable, problems that have arisen for the Artemis II crew during their journey around the moon and back.Email issuesOn the first day of the mission, the astronauts dealt with a challenge that has plagued so many of us Earth-bound office workers: Needing tech support to fix their wonky work email.AdvertisementAdvertisementIn audio shared via NASA’s livestream, mission commander Reid Wiseman can be heard asking ground control for help with his personal computer, a Microsoft Surface Pro.“I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working,” he says, referring to Microsoft’s notoriously finicky email application. Wiseman then asks engineers on the ground to “remote in” in hopes that they can fix the problem, which NASA later said they were able to do.The email issues forced Wiseman to ask mission control to tell his children to send him messages via the other crew members’ accounts “so I can at least talk to them.”“This is not uncommon,” Artemis flight director Judd Frieling said on Thursday. “You know, sometimes Outlook has issues getting configured, especially when you don’t have a network that’s directly connected. And so essentially we just had to reload his files on Outlook to get it working.”Bluetooth strugglesDuring a video that was intended to show pilot Victor Glover using the onboard exercise device, mission specialist Christina Koch can be heard talking with ground control about her struggles getting a device to connect via Bluetooth.AdvertisementAdvertisement“No joy [in] seeing the device in the list of available devices when I attempt to re-pair it,” she says.We don’t have details on what exactly the issue w …
