MERCURY RECOVERY SHIP COVER & POSTMARK VARIETIES

Mercury-Atlas 1 Rehearsal - 18 May 1960 - Unmanned

Recovery Force Ships

Ship

Type

Designation Covers

Atlantic

Destroyer 1

PRS - Destroyer

DD-

N

Destroyer 2

SRS - Destroyer

DD-

N

Participant

Destroyer 3

SRS - Destroyer
Deposited Spacecraft in Recovery Area

DD-

N

Notes:
1) Source : 'Project Mercury ...one step into space', Donald O. Schultz (1967), 13

 

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