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Regulus I Missile Mail container, 1959 (metal)

Regulus I Missile Mail container, 1959 (metal)
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SMT1217138
Image title
Regulus I Missile Mail container, 1959 (metal)
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Artist
American School, (20th century) / American
Location
National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
Medium
metal
Date
1959 AD (C20th AD)
Dimensions
27.9x29.2x29.2 cms
Image description

On June 8, 1959 the US Navy and the Post Office Department collaborated on a truly odd way of moving the mail. This is one of two containers that were filled with letters and placed inside a Regulus I missile which was then fired off the USS Barbero submarine. The missile landed 22 minutes later at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station at Mayport, Florida. An enthusiastic Postmaster General Summerfield touted the possibilities of missile mail, but costs and practicality made that test firing the only incidence of using a missile to carry mail in the United States.

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© Smithsonian Institution / Bridgeman Images
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box / metal / containers / postal / national postal museum / container / postal service / metallic / worn / chipped / mail / missile / post office / invention / missiles / battered / smithsonian institution / inventions / post / boxes / regulus i

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