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First email from space

Shannon Lucid, Macintosh Portable
STS-43 Mission Specialist Shannon Lucid is using the thumbball/handgrip control device with a Macintosh portable laptop computer.

Space Shuttle Atlantis astronauts sent an email to Johnson Space Center, using an Apple Portable computer, on 09 August 1991.

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Apollo 11 splashes down in the Pacific

Apollo 11 splash down
Apollo 11 crew await pickup by a helicopter from the USS Hornet. The fourth man in the life raft is a United States Navy underwater demolition team swimmer. All four men are wearing biological isolation garments. NASA.

Sustenance in space: Tang and Nestle’s instant coffee. Then three weeks post-space quarantine in a modified Airstream with Stouffer’s frozen dinners.

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From Mercury to Atlantis: 50 years of manned space travel ended on 21 July 2011

Atlantis from International Space Station
Atlantis approaches the International Space Station after departing Florida on 08 July 2011. NASA.

In 2004, President Bush said the shuttle program would end in 2010. On the 53rd anniversary of Apollo 11, NASA announced launch dates for Artemis I.