posted 12-19-2024 05:17 AM
   
I have a cover for the Gemini 2 suborbital shot of 19th January 1965. It has a corner card for Manned Spaceflight Tracking Network Station 16 Box 6005 Corpus Christi Texas and generic tracking dish cachet.On the back are ten signatures by what looks to me the same pen. Any help on background to this rather obscure cover would be much appreciated. The signatures at first glance seem to be: - [Dan Brown/ Dr. Boden ??]
- Ben J Chatman
- C Conter ?
- K R Colwell
- D L Blake
- MCN Ret E Hurst ?
- Jim Young
- Douglas P Wolnitzek
- W N John STTW ?
- Glenn C Hoskins
 I'm assuming, because they have signed together, that they were all personnel at the Corpus Christi tracking facility at the time of launch - can anybody confirm that? Or amend any of the names? Or give any background to individual names? Or explain the meaning of MCN Ret. and STTW? Also, was the Corpus Christi facility active for the tracking of Gemini 2, given it was a sub-orbital launch from Cape Canaveral with splashdown and recovery 1,847 miles downrange in the Atlantic by USS Lake Champlain? And I have one further query. To my eye, the Jim Young signature has a certain resemblance to John Young's signature, the major difference being the shape of the initial J. Was John Young ever known as Jim? Where were the GT-3 crew on the launch day of GT-2? | 
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