{"id":562,"date":"2011-02-23T11:05:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T11:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=562"},"modified":"2011-02-23T11:05:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T11:05:48","slug":"u-s-rocket-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/u-s-rocket-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Rocket Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three weeks ago I posted about the first official “rocket mail” flight<\/a>, 80 years ago in Austria. Technically that was “rocket history” instead of “space history,” but I don’t care. I find it interesting.<\/p>\n

Along those same lines, today in “rocket history” marks the 75th anniversary of the first official U.S. rocket mail flight, on February 23, 1936, in Greenwood Lake, NJ. This past Sunday the town held a commemorative event<\/a> at the Greenwood Lake Public Library to mark the occasion. <\/p>\n

I should note that The Rocket Mail Page<\/a> mentions an earlier rocket mail flight in Ohio in June 1931, but this excerpt from Aerospace America<\/em> magazine*<\/a> makes it clear that the earlier flight could not be considered official.<\/p>\n

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Three weeks ago I posted about the first official “rocket mail” flight, 80 years ago in Austria. Technically that was “rocket history” instead of “space history,” but I don’t care. I find it interesting. Along those same lines, today in “rocket history” marks the 75th anniversary of the first official \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,11],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-rocket","tag-space-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}