$85-$120 per person
Pricing varies upon group and day

(Ages 7 & Up)

Night Ops: Live-Aboard Overnight Adventure

Ever wonder how an aircraft carrier works? Come aboard and spend the night living with history on the ultimate overnight adventure and find out how USS Hornet’s sailors lived and worked on this city at sea! Designed for ages 7 and up, this is a perfect group activity for scouts, youth groups, schools, friends, and families!

During the Night Ops Overnight you will tour key areas of the ship to see various spaces and systems and discuss the history, science, and engineering behind them. As you move around the ship, you can participate in several hands-on science stations and demonstrations interspersed with seeing sailors’ living spaces! The experience includes:

• Sleeping in restored, original sailor sleeping compartments
• Enjoying Dinner and Breakfast in the original Enlisted Crew’s Mess
• Learning about this famous aircraft carrier’s daring exploits
• Touring key areas of the ship and the historic naval aircraft on display
• Learning about NASA’s Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions that put the first men on the moon
• Earning an overnight crew Patch & Certificate
• Ample Free Parking

All Overnight Guests must be at least 7 years old

Come aboard and spend the night living with history with the ultimate overnight adventure! The Museum’s Live-Aboard Overnight Program was one of the first of its kind and a model for overnight Museum adventures.

Explore the decks of this famous World War II ship from the Captain’s Bridge to our Sickbay as you walk in the footsteps of astronauts and heroes aboard the ship that proudly recovered the first men to walk on the Moon, the Apollo 11 and 12 lunar mission astronauts.

The Live-Aboard program includes an evening tour, breakfast and dinner in the original Enlisted Mess, late-night ghost stories, and more! The program is suitable for all age ranges and its standard single-night stays are divided into:

• Family/Small Group Live-Aboard: For individual families who wish to stay aboard.
• Youth Group Live-Aboard: For organized youth groups such as scouts and schools.
• Adult Group Live-Aboard: For organized adult clubs, work groups, or groups of friends.