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3 unusual facts about The Rocket Post


Gerhard Zucker

A movie based on Zucker's attempts with mail rockets at Scarp was made 2004, called The Rocket Post, starring Ulrich Thomsen as Zucker.

The Rocket Post

The story is very loosely based on experiments in 1934 by the German inventor Gerhard Zucker to provide a postal service to the island of Scarp by rocket mail.

The arrival of German rocket scientist Gerhard Zucker is not initially welcomed by the inhabitants of the island.



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