Front: Greetings from Huntsville, Ala. The Rocket City. Back: Huntsville, Ala., "The Rocket City" Huntsville has earned the title "Rocket City" since the Army located most of its missile and rocket men at Redstone Arsenal.
Front: Greetings from Outer Space, Huntsville, Ala. Back: JUPITER-C left: U.S. Army JUPITER-C Missile. This rocket, developed at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, Huntsville. Ala., was used to launch the free world's first scientific earth satellite, the EXPLORER. Right: U.S. Army JUPITER Missile. The JUPITER Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile is being developed at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, Huntsville. Ala. It is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to a distance of 1500 nautical miles.
Back: NASA'S SA-5 undergoing pre-launch check-out. The Saturn is the free-world's largest space booster. It develops a million and a half pounds thrust. The NASA Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville. Alabama, has been developing and providing rockets for our space achievements since the very beginning of our entry into this field.
This postcard was written by Hildegard Nörenberg in Tegel, Berlin, Germany, and sent to her sweetheart Hans-Albert Silberberg in Stuttgart. The reverse of the postcard shows the letterhead of Nörenberg's father's business, Walter Nörenberg Eisenwaren, a hardware store.
