Editing AppleLink (section)

== E-mail from space ==

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On August 9, 1991, AppleLink, running on a  [[Macintosh Portable]] was used to send the first e-mail from space, aboard the [[Space Shuttle Atlantis]], mission [[STS-43]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Linzmayer|first=Owen W.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52821221|title=Apple confidential 2.0 : the definitive history of the world's most colorful company|date=2004|publisher=No Starch Press|others=Owen W. Linzmayer|isbn=1-59327-010-0|edition=[Rev. 2nd ed.]|location=San Francisco, Calif.|pages=147|oclc=52821221}}</ref>

Atlantis astronauts [[Shannon Lucid]] and [[James C. Adamson]] with the help of Dave Crego, an engineer at Apple, sent a message to  Marcia Ivins, a shuttle communicator at [[Johnson Space Center]]. The Message read:<blockquote>"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!"</blockquote>The AppleLink software was configured with a special Macintosh Communications ToolBox Connection Tool that interfaced to [[NASA]]'s communication system which allowed the Shuttle to call up GEIS' network from space. The Shuttle's e-mail address was secret, but exposed to GEIS' e-mail network as any other AppleLink address. To avoid a deluge of incoming mail resulting from the publicity of the event, Apple set up a number of obvious "[[honeypot (computing)|honeypot]]" addresses not really used by the Shuttle crew, such as STS43@APPLELINK. Most of the well-wishers' e-mail went there, rather than to the real Atlantis address.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://support.apple.com/kb/TA30635|title = Macintosh Portable: Used in Space Shuttle}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tidbits.com/1991/08/19/mac-in-space-ii/|title = Mac in Space II|date = 19 August 1991}}</ref>