USS Mississippi (CGN-40) was a Virginia class nuclear powered guided missile armed cruiser laid down by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry-dock Corporation at Newport News in Virginia on 22 February1975, launched on 31 July1976 and commissioned on 5 August1978. USS Mississippi was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 July1997 and is scheduled to enter the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program on 1 October2004.
