The USS Hornet is a WWII-era aircraft carrier that has the distinction of being the ship that collected the Apollo 11 module after splashdown. It’s now a permanent museum docked in Oakland.
I recently attended a press event aboard the ship, and snapped a few photos along the way. The best way to view them is on my flickr page, so you can grab the full-sized images if you want. There’s some neat stuff in there. The painted footprints are Neil Armstrong’s first steps after getting back aboard the ship – his first steps “on earth” after walking around on the moon. The command module you see is similar to, but not the same one used on Apollo 11 (the Apollo 11 module, CSM-107, is on display at the National Air and Space Museum).
Go check out the set, let me know what you think. There are only 8 photos (I won’t bore you with shots of 24 monitors running from a single PC and so on).
