Heroism and Heritage: Jeep at the USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum

2020 Jeep Gladiator at USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum, Alameda, California.

Automobile ride-and-drives are a fairly common thing.  Between your local dealer's tent event, the area auto show, and manufacturers pitching a key group of potential buyers, to say nothing of press events, there's probably a ride-and-drive somewhere in America every single week, if not most days of the year.

But Jeep went all-out last week for a general public event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing by staging an event on the very aircraft carrier that plucked the Apollo 11 astronauts out of the sea after splashdown and ferried them to dry land with a United States president on board.