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Rocket Mail of the WorldGermanyCuxhaven, Germany %u2014 November 1, 1959 %u2014 EZ-12C1 %u2014 DRG (German Rocket Society) (2,300).The first of two firings on this day. With enclosure, reduced facsimile below.(cachet text) Post rocket test launch of projectiles 11-15 (test series 3). German Rocket Society eV. Member of the International Astronautical Federation.(red rubber stamp) Transported with rocket.(text on enclosure) After completing the research work on the Olsphra rocket, the German Rocket Society eV, Bremen, turned to the development of meteorological as well as supply and mail Rockets. This letter and the accompanying card are intended to be a greeting to all friends of our company, and our philatelist friends, from our experimental site on the North Sea coast. 2,500 letters and postcards were launched as payloads with the missiles from the 3rd and 4th test series and then handed over to the special post office in Sahlenburg of the German Federal Post Office for transport by post. German Rocket Society eV. (President). Test site near Sahlenburg, November 1, 1959.