Cosmosphere
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Cosmosphere is an international science education center and space museum in Hutchinson, Kansas, United States, located on the northeast corner of Plum Street and 11th Avenue, next to the Hutchinson C
Main entrance (2003)
Aerial view of Kansas Cosmosphere and Hutchinson Community College (2014)
Apollo 13 command module on display (2010)
Interior view of the Apollo 13 capsule (2009)
Mercury-Redstone 4
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Mercury-Redstone 4 was the second United States human spaceflight, on July 21, 1961. The suborbital Project Mercury flight was launched with a Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, MRLV-8. The spacecraft,
Cosmosphere
…collection of the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum. Two examples of this work are the Apollo 13 Command Module Odyssey, and the Liberty Bell 7 – both on display at the Cosmosphere. The Cosmosphere built roughly 80% of the artifacts and props for the movie Apollo 13 and of the replicated…
Astronaut Gus Grissom climbs into Liberty Bell 7
Virgil Ivan "Gus" GrissomProject Mercury Crewed missions← Mercury-Redstone 3Mercury-Atlas 6 →
Launch of Mercury-Redstone 4 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 5
Grissom is hoisted to safety following the sinking of Liberty Bell 7