NASA Breaks Moon Distance Record, Still Can’t Fix Space Toilet or Outlook
KEY POINTS
- •NASA launched the Artemis II mission from Kennedy Space Center on April 1 with four crew members.
- •The crew dealt with a frozen urine clog in the toilet and a Microsoft Outlook failure during the 10-day lunar flyby.
- •On April 6, Artemis II broke the Apollo 13 record for the farthest humans traveled from Earth, honoring late astronaut Jim Lovell.
On April 1, 2026, NASA's Artemis II blasted off from Kennedy Space Center with four astronauts—Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, plus Christina Koch and Canada’s Jeremy Hansen—on a 10-day lunar flex aimed at testing moon-landing tech (aka: not crashing on purpose). On April 2, Artemis II faced a crisis of epic cosmic proportions: a jammed toilet fan. NASA remotely guided the crew to thaw out Olympic-level frozen pee clogging their high-tech Universal Waste Management System. Seven hours in, Commander Wiseman’s Microsoft Outlook threw a space tantrum, refusing to work mid-Mission Control livestream. Then on April 6, they shattered Apollo 13's 248,655-mile float record while orbiting the moon—complete with a virtual coming-of-age message from late Apollo hero Jim Lovell. The crew honored Wiseman’s late wife with a new moon crater named Carroll, and yes, Integrity, after the Orion capsule, also got a rock. All this while rocking the latest Microsoft Surface Pro and an iPhone 17 (because nothing says ‘adventure’ like battling bugs both terrestrial and celestial).
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(1 of 3)NASA sends humans farther than ever from Earth but needs ground control to fix their clogged space toilet and broken Outlook. Take us to the moon, just don’t ask us to pee.
Artemis II crew broke lunar distance records but can’t fix space plumbing or cope without Outlook. Houston, we have a toilet problem.
NASA’s moon mission: 248,655 miles out, stuck with frozen urine clogs and Microsoft tech tantrums. Space travel’s glow-up looks more like a mess-up.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 4/7/2026 | Author: Katherine Li
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