Lincoln Message from the Enterprise

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OTD - July 18th, 1861
President Lincoln receives telegram from Prof. Lowe in balloon "Enterprise" over Columbia Armory grounds: "This point of observation commands an area near fifty miles in diameter. . . . I have the pleasure of sending you this first dispatch ever telegraphed from an aerial station."
N.Y. Tribune, 19 June 1861.

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

So is this the first message transmitted from "space?" Love that the name of the ship was Enterprise.