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The First (Analog) Tweet From Space – In 1968
“On October 14, 1968, the Apollo 7 crew became the first to broadcast live from space. Count the characters in their message. “Keep those cards and letters coming in, folks!”. 44. A perfect Tweet. In 1968.”
Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch.com and Astrobiology.com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member... More by Keith Cowing
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I clearly (and old enough!) to remember that. My feelings were like Wally was directing it straight to us regular people on the ground rather than holding something in front of a camera. It is interesting to learn decades later that at first TV was first considered a nicety, didn’t add much value, many thought it all was a waste of time and resources especially during lunar landings. Thanks to those engineers and technicians who pulled several all-nighters to make TV from space happen.