How email works in space

For the first time in 54 years, humans are flying by the moon. And perhaps for the first time ever, email may be sent that far into space, as Artemis II rounds the dark side of the moon and starts heading back home—as email itself is only 55 years old.

But email has been sent to space before, starting with a Space Shuttle flight in 1991 that sent the first email from space on a Macintosh Portable.

Here's the story of the first email in space, and how data still works in space today, on the Buttondown blog.

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