David Cooper
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And so what they're doing is they're picking and choosing which images get shared back with Earth.
They took 175 gigabytes of imagery just for the lunar flyby, and I'm sure there's lots more for the rest of the mission.
So I'm willing to bet that only a fraction of what was taken has been shared with Earth.
And when they do land afterward, they'll pull all of the SD cards off of the devices and they will copy them all down.
NASA has said it's their mission to get all of the imagery processed and shared publicly within six months.
So there's a lot more to come because a lot of it simply couldn't be sent remotely because the pipe from deep space isn't as big as the ones that we're using now for our internet.
And you're not the only one.
I don't think I've ever met anyone who likes Outlook.
Certainly, I don't.
I've used it at various points in my life, not because I wanted to, but because of companies that I was working either for or with.
That's what they standardized on.
If you're an Office 365 customer, you're using Outlook, and no one likes it.
And so...
Each astronaut has been issued what's called a PCD or a Personal Computing Device.
Basically, it's a Surface Pro tablet that is, of course, a Microsoft device, so it has Microsoft software on it.
And just after they got into orbit on the first day of the mission, Reid Wiseman, who's the commander, said his PCD, his Outlook, wasn't working.
And so Mission Control said, look, we'll remotely take it over.
They can do that.
Kind of like tech support here on Earth, but I'm guessing a little higher tech.
and they were able to reload the software and get it working again.