When was the first email sent from space?
The first email was sent from space in 1991, 20 years after its invention. It was sent from the NASA space shuttle, the Atlantis, and was written by astronauts Shannon Lucid and James C. Adamson. The message was sent to Marcia Ivans, who was at a space center in Houston. The first email from space read, “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!”2