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Deputy Secretary of Defense

Dear Mr. Secretary

in Order to reach you, this letter will have flown a distance of

almost one-half minim/ miles both within and without the earth's

atmosphere, travelling over 17 times around the world at speeds

greater than 18,000 miles per hour. Contained in the DISCOVERER

satellite, it will have been launchedbythe United States Air

Force into an orbit about the earth frau Vandenberg Air Force Base,

California, and recovered in the mdd•loacific.

This is the first time that letters have been sent by a setellite

and is in the tradition of airmen who less than thirty years ago

pioneered in the first use of airmail.

This remarkable achievement could not have been accomplished

without the dedication of a great mew people tram Congress., from

science, from industry, from the Services, and from the Bitional

Aeronautics and Space Administration. We are grateful to all

who have had apart inbringing this Betion one step nearer to

man's transcendence over the limits of the earth.
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