Office Software Breaks Moon Mission

Astronauts on Artemis II reported Microsoft Outlook failing and mission control using commercial authentication tools (Okta) to remediate, showing that crewed spaceflight workflows depend on consumer cloud software. That dependence means everyday outages or account failures can ripple into mission operations and crew communications even on missions around the moon. — Highlights a practical vulnerability: reliance on commercial SaaS and identity providers creates operational, security, and supply‑chain risks for government and national security missions.