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Rocket Mail of the WorldGermanySahlenburg, Germany %u2014 March 22, 1964 %u2014 EZ-68C1.Reduced facsimile of back below.(cachet) German Museum of Masterpieces of Natural Science and Technology. Collections Library, Congress Hall, 8000 Munich, PO Box 26. Currently Sahlenburg for Test Series Trial 11 for mail and supply rockets.(red rubber stamp) Transported with rocket March 22, 1964.(text on back) The Hermann Oberth Society, Society for the Promotion of the Exploration and Development of Space eV (formerly: German Rocket Society eV) considers it to be its primary duty, in accordance with its new name, to demand that all institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany strive to promote the idea of peaceful space travel and space research.The German Museum has been trying for some time to set up a Rocket and Space Department in order to illustrate historical developments.After the first 10 missiles were launched on March 8, 1964, on the site in the Luneburg Heath, 10 more are to be launched on March 22, 1964, one day after the 70thbirthday of the space pioneer Diploma Engineer (Rudolph) Nebel on the Cuxhaven test site.The payload of these missiles will be rocket cards, the proceeds from the sale of which will be given to the German Museum to further expand the Rocket Technology Department.German Museum, Hermann Oberth Society.