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unusual facts about rocket mail


Rocket Ship Galileo

After World War II, three teenage boy rocket experimenters are recruited by one boy's uncle, Dr. Cargraves, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, to refit a conventionally powered surplus "mail rocket".


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.


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