Wasp or Hornet?

[Simpo Two]

My logic has failed... according to this page the Apollo 11 astronauts went to both... Eric!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin

[Pachydermus]

According to that Aldrin went to both - wasp for Gemini 12 and hornet for Apollo 11.

[Simpo Two]

Aha thanks, I was tired and couldn't piece it together without spending a day on it!

[Eric Mc]

The USS Hornet was used for the recovery of Apollo 11.

Armstrong's one and only Gemini flight was Gemini 8. As this experienced an in-orbit emergency, it had to perform a re-entry and splashdown in the Pacific rather than the intended Atlantic. The recovery ship was therefore a destroyer, the USS Leonard F Mason, rather than the usual aircraft carrier.

[Beati Dogu]

Yes, the intended recovery ship for Gemini 8 was USS Boxer, an Essex class aircraft carrier (CV-21).

A few months earlier in 1966, Boxer had recovered the unmanned Apollo capsule (AS-201) that had launched on a Saturn IB.