About seven hours into the flight of Artemis II, Commander Reid Wiseman experienced something many earthbound Microsoft users know all too well: his Outlook email stopped working.

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    The Orion capsule uses the Core Flight System (cFS) running on a Linux-based real-time operating system - specifically Wind River VxWorks for flight software tasks. Phew. At least nothing truly critical is running on Microslop.