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I stayed the night on the USS Hornet either for a field trip of some sorts during the late 90s. Really neat place, if you’d never been on (or seen) an aircraft
by samtho 3y ago
I stayed the night on the USS Hornet either for a field trip of some sorts during the late 90s. Really neat place, if you’d never been on (or seen) an aircraft carrier, I would encourage anyone to check it out as it’s a docked museum open to the public. If I have guests and were in the area, I will take my visitors there too.
They had a the dimensions of give containment chamber on the floor that the Apollo astronauts had to quarantine in, but was disappointed that this thing wasn’t on the floor of the Hornet[0]. It looked like if you built a mid-century airstream camper on a cargo container frame base. However, they have Apollo 14’s MQF on display now.
The hornet is also supposedly very haunted.
[0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/President_Nixon_welcomes_the_Apollo_11_astronauts_aboard_the_U.S.S._Hornet.jpg/1280px-President_Nixon_welcomes_the_Apollo_11_astronauts_aboard_the_U.S.S._Hornet.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Pr...
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- supportengineer 3y agoI believe they have that Airstream now, as of a few years ago.
- dabluecaboose 3y agoIf I'm remembering correctly they actually lost the quarantine trailers they used for the Apollo missions and ended up reacquiring and restoring them from some yokels who had bought them off surplus