In Popular Culture
- In a second season episode of The Six Million Dollar Man titled "Act of Piracy", the Constellation is a part of the United States Second Fleet response to an international crisis in the Caribbean. It appears in alternate sequences with the USS Ranger (CV-61).
- Constellation appears in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor, portraying the USS Hornet during the takeoff sequences for the Doolittle Raid. In September 2000, four vintage B-25s took off from the ship while she was steaming off the coast of San Diego, reenacting the feat of Doolittle's raiders, albeit on a much larger flight deck. Some members of the crew were used as extras in the movie. In 1989, actors Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe and Brad Johnson spent several weeks aboard the ship interacting with crew members and aircrews from VA-196 to get a feel for carrier and naval aviation life, in preparation for their roles in the movie Flight of the Intruder. In the Home Improvement television episode "At Sea" (Season 6, Ep. 1), the Tool Time cast and crew visit the Connie for a "Salute to Engines" special.
- The story of Tiger Cruise, a Disney Channel Original Movie, takes place aboard the USS Constellation.
- In computer game Jetfighter II, the USS Constellation serves as the base of operations in most of player's combat missions. Player can also choose it from six available airfields (the other five being LAX, VBG, SFO, OAK, and NUQ) to takeoff or land at in "Free Flight" mode.
- In The Avengers film, the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier carries the hull number 64, which would indicate that it is the USS Constellation heavily retrofitted.
- In the upcoming Chris Roberts space game Star Citizen, one of the spacecrafts is named "Constellation" in honor of the USS Constellation and shares its "Connie" nickname.
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