Geek Trivia: Air (and space) mail

It's too bad that so many of our visions of the future never come to pass. It is fortunate , however, that some ideas die early. Take the 1950's idea of launching mail via unarmed cruise missles.

"On June 8, 1959, 46 years ago, the U.S. submarine Barbero conducted the first and last test of so-called "Missile Mail," a concept that involved using a warhead-less Regulus cruise missile to carry—I'm not making this up—postal containers."

Geek Trivia: Air (and space) mail