My friends and I have been deriving much amusement from the comms issues. We can fly people around the moon, talk with them, send back high res video, but talk to the boat that’s close enough to swim to? Forget about it!

Note: next time, pack a walkie talkie. ;-)

Just like in the year 3000, we will still ask "Can you hear me?" in video meetings.

Cellphone coverage notoriously flaky in the Pacific.

i was thinking maybe astronauts can be disoriented when splashing down and that's why they figured they should ask if the right buttons were being pushed?

...and informing them which button was the PTT button. She had to say it, but it'd be hard not to react to that.

Good thing they have redundant systems.