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Gordon Eliot Reade
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Posts: 261
From: California
Registered: Jun 2015

posted 08-05-2022 09:05 PM

I visited the USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum last week [July 2022] and as always I had a wonderful time. The volunteers who keep the doors open are extremely knowledgeable and just wonderful in every way. Also they've added to the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 collection of historic artifacts. They now have a small recreation of an American home circa July 1969 with dial phone and bulky TV.

They even have the recovery helicopter that was used in the filming of the movie "Apollo 13" painted as a duplicate of the Apollo 11 recovery helicopter. This caused me some confusion at first as the original was lost off the coast of California in 1975.

Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
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posted 07-09-2025 11:25 AM

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Adam Savage tours the USS Hornet, a decommissioned World War II aircraft carrier that's now an aviation and space museum with an impressive collection of aircraft and NASA artifacts on display.
Getting around this historic ship involves a rare treat: a ride on one of the USS Hornet's aircraft elevators that move plans from the flight deck to the hanger deck at startling speed!

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