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Our Field Trip at Sea program is our standard, docent-led Museum tour highlighting USS Hornet’s history and NASA’s Apollo missions. For more targeted Field Trips for History or STEM themes, please check out our other Field Trip programs!
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This program expands students’ horizons, develops new vocabulary and concepts, and helps them explore the ship’s unusual educational environment. Participants:
– Tour the historic Navigation Bridge where the captain commanded
– Learn how aircraft were launched and recovered on the Flight Deck with its catapults and control tower
– Learn how 15 men worked together to fire the big 5-inch guns
– See historic aircraft on the Hangar Deck
– Experience how the crew lived below decks in their own “city”
– Walk on the footprints of the astronauts’ first steps back on earth
– See the Mobile Quarantine Facility used by the Apollo 14 astronauts and an Apollo 11 test capsule
– Ride the flight simulator featuring a mission that takes off and lands on the deck of a carrier