NASA astronauts send the first e-mail from space
9th August 1991 On the 9th of August 1991, NASA astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis send the first e-mail from space. The e-mail was sent using AppleLink running on a Macintosh Portable. Astronauts Shannon Lucid and James C. Adamson sent the following message to Marcia Ivins, a shuttle communicator at Johnson Space Center: Hello Earth! Greetings from the STS-43 Crew. This is the first AppleLink from space. Having a GREAT time, wish you were here,...send cryo and RCS! Hasta la vista, baby,...we'll be back! Related information:
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