USS Hornet helped write the playbook for Artemis II splashdown: A look at its NASA history

USS Hornet helped write the playbook for Artemis II splashdown: A look at its NASA history

A historic Bay Area aircraft carrier that once helped bring astronauts home from the moon is now serving as a real-life reminder of how far space travel has come. Now docked in Alameda as a sea, air and space museum, the USS Hornet played a critical role in NASA's earliest human spaceflight missions.