# Rocket Mail

**URL:** https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/rocket-mail/1075
**Category:** Continuity
**Tags:** rockets, mail
**Created:** [21 March 2022 15:41 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/rocket-mail/1075 "2022-03-21T15:41:25Z")
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### Author: ![johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/johnwalker/32/17415_2.png) [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)
#### Post date: [21 March 2022 15:41 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/rocket-mail/1075/1 "2022-03-21T15:41:25Z")

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[![](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/2X/8/82d2417678293a806c372d61a38932f8d1a8b2ab.jpeg "Mail via Missile: USPS expedited") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUFmE-JDido)

As is so often the case, the [Kingdom of Tonga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.to) played a part in the development of this emerging technology. Here is more on [rocket mail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mail). In Robert Heinlein’s 1947 young adult novel _[Rocket Ship Galileo](https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/reading_list/?book=1001)_, the Moon ship was built from a surplus mail delivery rocket.