We hate 2020!

Just when we thought 2020 couldn't get any worse! We were about to re-open after many months of being closed but then disaster struck when a mains water pipe burst and flooded much of the ground floor of the museum.
Sadly re-opening has now been postponed. Read More >>>

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First E-mail From Space Is Sent from a Mac Portable

28th August 1991
First E-mail From Space Is Sent from a Mac Portable

On August 28, 1991, aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, AppleLink, running on a Macintosh Portable was used to send the first e-mail from space.

Astronauts Shannon Lucid and James C. Adamson sent the message:

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!

to Marcia Ivins, a shuttle communicator at Johnson Space Center.