Training Ship Cachets

TRAINING RECOVERY SHIP COVER & POSTMARK VARIETIES

This section shows covers produced for various training missions. These training missions, often involving a dummy or boilerplate capsule, were designed to train ship personnel and access their readiness prior to the actual mission. Ships involved in such missions were not always the ships that finally were involved in the next actual mission. There is little documentation and few covers exist for such missions. Such covers are extremely rare.

Mercury Training Missions
Mercury 8¹ - USS Hancock
Mercury 8 - USS Intrepid
Mercury 8 - USS Yorktown

Gemini Training Missions
Gemini 2 - USS Wallace L. Lind²

Apollo Training Missions
Apollo 10 - USS Myles C. Fox³

Notes:
1) The designated mission is the next scheduled actual mission and is used for reference purposes only.
2) From the collection of Steve Durst.
3) From the collection of Dennis Paul.