NASA reported problems with communication and the toilet on the Orion lunar spacecraft

Communication with the American Orion spacecraft, which was launched toward the Moon as part of the Artemis II mission, was interrupted with Mission Control, and a problem arose with activating the "waste management" system.

This was reported by the head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jared Isaacman, during a press conference after the launch.

According to him, communication with the spacecraft was interrupted briefly. Mission control staff could not hear the astronauts, while messages from Earth were reaching them.

Isaacman suggested that the problem may have been related to switching the signal from one transmitter to another.

NASA's Artemis-2 astronaut mission departed for the Moon on April 1. This happened for the first time in more than half a century. The main goal of the program is to prepare for the next stage: the Artemis-3 mission, which plans to land on the surface of the satellite.

The lunar mission launch was originally scheduled for March, but at the beginning of the year it became clear that technical problems forced the timeline to be pushed back. The plan for the further program of flights to the Moon also shifted: for example, the landing on it in 2027 was replaced by another research mission and postponed to 2028.