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The museum is composed of the aircraft carrier {{USS|Hornet|CV-12|6}}, exhibits from the [[NASA]] [[Apollo program|Apollo]] Moon exploration missions, and several retired aircraft from the [[Second World War]] and the transonic and early supersonic jet propulsion period. A number of compartments contain exhibits concerning contemporary carriers that are supported by related associations. The flight deck, hangar deck, and first deck below are open for self-guided tours. [[Museum docent|Docent]]-led tours are available into the ship's navigation and flight deck control areas of the island and down into one of the engineering spaces containing two of the four ship's propulsion turbines.
The exhibits are on and in the USS Hornet itself, a retired aircraft carrier that was launched during WW2 and served in many historic battles such as the Liberation of the Philippines and naval battles in the Pacific. After the war she was used to search for submarines and secure airspace, and had a special role in space exploration, being used to recover returning space capsules in the space race. The ship was decommissioned 1970, and held in storage, but in the 1990s was registered as a historic landmark and made into a museum which opened in 1998.
Aircraft Carrier Hornet Foundation preserves and honors the legacy of {{USS|Hornet|CV-12|6}}, a [[national historic landmark]],<ref>http://www.nps.gov/nhl/find/statelists/CA.pdf List of National Historic Landmarks located in California</ref> and its role in [[naval aviation]], the defense of the United States, the [[Apollo Program]], and exploration of space.
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