Space Exploration in 2026

One small bug for man, one giant slop for mankind

I thought NASA has mostly removed Microslop from places like the ISS after they had the microslop windows laptop infect those systems on the ISS? Why go back to this garbage on important facilities?

Didn’t know about this, had to look it up

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/microsofts-buggy-apps-reach-deep-space-i-have-two-microsoft-outlooks-and-neither-one-of-those-is-working-says-artemis-ii-commander

“copilot is telling me to resolve the issue I have to shut off our life support systems, I’m going to give that a try and let you know soon if it worked”

Get the first quote correct.

I don’t understand why they’d use Windows for such a critical task in the first place.

Get the first damn quote correct ffs.