Blanker Hans 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸11h ago
Andrew Faden
Famous quotes from NASA mission comms:
- Apollo 11: "The Eagle has landed"
- Apollo 13: "Houston, we have a problem"
- Artemis 2: "We are still updating Outlook so everything but email is go"
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Show threadAndrew Faden2d ago
Thanks to @quephird for noticing this on the NASA feed: https://tech.lgbt/@quephird/116353383035378497
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OMFG… I just heard Mission Control tell Artemis II literally, “Everything but email is go” LOLSOBBING MY ASS OFF NOW

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Show threadAndrew Faden1d ago
Some good ways to watch the moon flyby today, starting ~1pm:
- NASA live stream https://www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK8TEs
- NASA app has an interactive 3D view (AROW) https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-app/
- timeline https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/06/artemis-ii-flight-day-6-crew-ready-for-lunar-flyby/
- another nice timeline view https://charbonzickpean.com/artemis2mission.html
Show threadstodarahodan1d ago
@faden yet another timeline view i really like: https://www.sunnywingsvirtual.com/artemis2/timeline.html
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Show threadDaveography 🇨🇦1d ago

@faden

My partner: Just the other day, we thought "Wow, they're up there with the same technology as us! 😀" ...now we're all "Wow, they're up there with the same technology as us? 😬"

Show threadAndrew Faden1d ago
@Daveography Ha exactly, they were troubleshooting issues with their GoPros too. So weird to see them just using regular consumer tech, but I guess it makes sense for some things rather than developing specialized hardware and software in house.
Show threadAndrew Faden1d ago
@Daveography Also it really struck me how addicted to smartphones we are a species when I saw that they designed a special smartphone pocket in their space suits.
Show threadMartin Vermeer FCD1d ago

@faden @Daveography I unearthed this early unintended effect of using COTS products in space:

https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/f70983c0-6999-4e1a-a3c3-595690607148/content#Hfootnote.231

Show threadmatthiasm1d ago
@faden @Daveography Oh, so there is hope that one of my next Bluejeans could have a smartphone pocket that is really useable. (See, Levi‘s had watchpockets since 1873, but no one is using pocket watches anymore since the 1930s.)
Show threadBaloo Uriza1d ago
@faden Also Artemis 2: "Shitter's clogged."
Show threadJohn Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺1d ago

@faden

Apollo 10: "There's a turd floating through the air."

https://archive.ph/6KsEH

Show threadF4GRX Sébastien14h ago
@johnlogic @faden nah that one was an apollo mission
Show threadReinald Kirchner1d ago
@faden for years and years Microsoft was stating in their EULA not to use their software for mission critical systems. Did they remove it? Or is Nasa violating terms of service?
Show threadOlly Maunder1d ago
@Reinald @faden It's just email - nothing mission critical
Show threadReinald Kirchner1d ago
@roomaroo @faden maybe I am naive there, but I would consider everything on a spacecraft as mission critical. Including every communication channel.
Show threadRalf Süss1d ago
@Reinald @roomaroo @faden pretty sure their tooth brushes are not mission critical ;)
Show threadPink1d ago
@roomaroo @Reinald @faden the tablet of the astronaut that was on screen during the launch was running Windows, so....
Show threadJKN1d ago
@Reinald @faden
I remember that warning came on a card in the box. That always comes to mind when I see news of airports/public infrastructure crashing because of Windows.
Show threadGergovie1d ago

@faden

Apollo's AGC
Microslop not inside ™

Show threadF4GRX Sébastien14h ago
@Gergovie @faden fuck yeah
Show threadKnud Jahnke1d ago

@faden

I think that's a perfect summary of the whole endeavour.

Show threadfedithom1d ago
@faden
Is that .... real???
Show threadpropapanda 1d ago

@fedithom

It is! 2 outlook installs were broken on this mission and i think they remotely accessed the onboard systems to fix them.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-s-spending-billions-on-ai-but-even-nasa-astronauts-can-t-escape-outlook-headaches/ar-AA205PJV

@faden

MSN

Show threadinpc1d ago
@faden

I hope this email finds you...
Show threadAngela Scholder1d ago
@faden 🤔🤭😄😆😂🤣
Show threadZoidberg For President1d ago
@faden Capcom?!?
Show thread🎹 Your Masto in April 🎹1d ago
@faden Microslop's shittiness will go down in history.
Show threadSome(oz)1d ago
@faden Space spammers hearing the news:☹️
Show threadD C Ross1d ago
@faden
"Houston, we have a toilet."
Show threadKeo1d ago
@faden when fiction meets reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zpCOYkdvTQ&t=25
Space Force - NetFlix - John Malkovich - Dr. Adrian Mallard - "Fuck Microsoft"

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Show threadWTL1d ago
@faden @wendynather Microsoft must be overjoyed at all the free PR Outlook is getting. 🤣
Show threadNiavy  1d ago
@faden
I thought it was a fake troll quote aaaand... No 😅🤣
Show threadBob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱1d ago

@faden

I hope this is true. Omigod.

Show threadChristian Berger DECT 27631d ago
@faden Yeah and also around hour 14 they are instructed that they probably spoke into the wrong side of the microphone.
Show threadJean-François Mezei1d ago
@faden they likely use same process as on ISS. The Outlook client doesn’t connect to a POP or IMAP server, NASA pushes files into the Outlook directories. And they pickup files for outbound documents from laptops. Not sure what sort of protocols they use to remotely manage laptops but it isn’t IP based.
Show threadBrain Bug1d ago
@faden
😂
Show threadԎєηυкι, 手抜き🚀🐧♏ 🔭 ⚫⚪1d ago
@faden Moonlanding in 1969 needed a computer restart inside the Moonlander . Remember error code 1202 on AGC . However Neil shut down AGC before landing by own hands .
Not sure how this plot would end with Artemis 3?
Show threadPascal 🇪🇺 🇺🇦16h ago
@enigma
I sincerely hope, the landing procedure will not be interrupted by an automated critical security patch or some license code input popup.
@faden
Show threadKiwï1d ago

The most surprising radio message of the Artemis II would be: "We have landed successfully" …

@faden

Show threadJean-Luc 🚲🗺️🍻🔧1d ago

@faden
Out lock...

#ironeme #ironemes

Show thread🏳️‍⚧️ Chloé: IA Vegan15h ago
@faden
It's a great achievement for Microsoft then.
Show threadNanjizal5h ago
@faden Really feel that Nasa should be removing closed source bloat from space missions. I understand that internally it may choose to use it but, even the focus on iphones for taking pictures. It feels like humans are trying to take the next step but an alien would be ashamed.
Show threadfmd59m ago

@faden
06/04/2026 - 00:08:45 (-3 TMZ) | 04:04:33 (Artemis Clock)
And in addition to the cached images and files.. we're going to check cookies and other data.

..I'll try that. Well, I just did it and I'll see what happens. And then which LTP do you want me to try to open first? The one that was already there originally, or do you want the one that I created the new shortcut for on the desktop?

Jeremy, try the original shortcut first.

Hooray! That fixed it. Alright.