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NAAmodel#240
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posted 09-22-2014 10:49 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for NAAmodel#240   Click Here to Email NAAmodel#240     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Just found a cover with USS Recovery as the return address dated Nov. 1, 1961. Any chance it had involvement in the Mercury Scout launch? From Wikipedia:
Occasionally assigned to experimental programs, USS Recovery was involved in escape and recovery tests off the Virginia coast for the National Aeronautical and Space Administration's man-in-space program. In May she again operated in support of NASA's space program and directed offshore standby recovery forces during Commander Shepard's suborbital flight, America's first manned space flight. In July Recovery returned to Cape Canaveral and joined the support force for Major Grissom's suborbital flight. In 1962 returned to Florida for Lieutenant Colonel Glenn's February orbital mission.

yeknom-ecaps
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posted 09-22-2014 08:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for yeknom-ecaps   Click Here to Email yeknom-ecaps     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Since the Mercury-Scout was intended to launch a satellite with a communications payload there would be no reason to recover anything from the satellite (like the film from the Discoverer satellites) or all/part of the launch rocket.

What you didn't copy from Wikipedia was "Between August and November [1961] she supported the Arctic resupply program" so being in the Arctic is a long way from the cape.

NAAmodel#240
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posted 10-02-2014 08:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for NAAmodel#240   Click Here to Email NAAmodel#240     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yeah, kinda thought it was a long shot. Thanks.

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