Amaya Toman In today's installment of our regular series on major technology events, we look back at the first email sent from Outer Space. The date this event is tied to varies among sources - we'll go with those that say August 4th.
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Email from Outer Space (1991)
On August 9, 1991, the Houston Chronicle reported that the first e-mail message had been successfully sent from space to Earth. The Atlantis crew, Shannon Lucid and James Adamson, sent the message using AppleLink software on a Mac. The first test message was sent to the 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!”. However, the exact date of sending the first e-mail from the Universe differs among different sources - some say, for example, August 9, others even the end of August.
Other events not only in the field of technology
- France conducts nuclear test in Mururoa Atoll area (1983)
- NASA launches the Phoenix probe to Mars using a Delta rocket
