{"id":15062,"date":"2019-08-09T23:17:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T23:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-first-e-mail-from-space-3\/"},"modified":"2019-08-09T23:17:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T23:17:01","slug":"the-first-e-mail-from-space-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-first-e-mail-from-space-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The First E-mail From Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/christies-apple5.png\" rel=\"lightbox[2050]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3796 alignright\" alt=\"Macintosh Portable\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/b68c7__christies-apple5-300x224.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/christies-apple5-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/christies-apple5.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>August 9, 1991<\/p>\n<p>Astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/STS-43\" target=\"_blank\">mission STS-43<\/a>, use an <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/TA30635\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Macintosh Portable computer to send what is considered the first e-mail from space<\/a>. Using the AppleLink online service,\u00a0Atlantis astronauts Shannon Lucid and James C. Adamson sent the following message:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hello Earth! Greetings from the STS-43 Crew. This is the first AppleLink from space. Having a GREAT time, wish you were here,&#8230;send cryo and RCS! Hasta la vista, baby,&#8230;we&#8217;ll be back!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The AppleLink software on the Macintosh was specially configured to connect to NASA&#8217;s communication system which allowed the Shuttle to interface with Apple&#8217;s proprietary network from space. The Macintosh Portable itself only had very minor modifications to operate in space.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/08\/09\/the-first-e-mail-from-space\/\">The First E-mail From Space<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/b68c7__12731024.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/1823\/12731024\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 9, 1991 Astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, mission STS-43, use an Apple Macintosh Portable computer to send what is considered the first e-mail from space. Using the AppleLink online service,\u00a0Atlantis astronauts Shannon Lucid and James C. Adamson sent the following message: Hello Earth! Greetings from the STS-43 Crew. This is the first AppleLink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[1508,399,405,1509],"class_list":["post-15062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-email","tag-first","tag-from","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}