shish_mishArtemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work
faltrykaYou wouldn’t and they didn’t.
The article has just failed to inform the readers (the few that got past the headline), that this was on his personal Surface Tablet and not on anything associated with the mission.
The tablets are a convenience, not a requirement and so being commercial off the shelf means it’s cheaper and it works well enough than what purpose-built hardware and software.
If every tablet died, the mission would proceed without pause. Except the astronauts would be checking gauges instead of looking at a system monitor on their tablet and not sending as many e-mails.