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TIL In 1959 the submarine USS Barbero assisted the US Post Office in an experiment in Rocket Mail by launching a modified Regulus missile containing two containers of mail towards the Naval Auxiliary Air Station in Mayport, Florida. The missile successfully landed after 22 minutes of travel.

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