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Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center

67501 Hutchinson, KS, United States of America (USA) (Kansas)
Address 1100 North Plum Street
 
 
Floor area 9 800 m² / 105 486 ft²  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Air and Space (aviation, spaceflight etc.)
  • Imax & "Maxi screen"
  • Planetarium
  • Military Aerospace

Opening times
 Sunday - Thursday: 9am - 5pm; Friday, Saturday: 9am - 7pm
see website for holiday closures.

Admission
Status from 07/2023
 ALL-ACCESS MISSION PASS: Adults: $27.50 +tax; Children (4-12): $18.50 + tax; Seniors (60+) + Military: $24.50 + tax; Children (3+under): FREE
see website for Single Venue Tickets at a reduced price.
Contact
Tel.:+1-800-397-03 30  Fax:+1-620-662-36 93  
eMail:www.cosmo.org/co_request.cfm   
Homepage
to Location / Directions
www.cosmo.org
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Location / Directions
N38.065511° W97.921894°N38°3.93066' W97°55.31364'N38°3'55.8396" W97°55'18.8184"

Distance Estimates

Wichita to Hutchinson: 50 miles
Kansas City to Hutchinson: 240 miles
Oklahoma City to Hutchinson: 220 miles
Dallas to Hutchinson: 420 miles
Denver to Hutchinson: 440 miles
Moon to Hutchinson: 250,000 miles

ALL-DAY MISSION PASS

includes one admission to each of the following:
Hall of Space Museum,
a Carey Digital Dome Theater documentary,
a Dr. Goddard’s Lab show,
a Justice Planetarium show,
and the naviGATOR Flight Simulator.

Time to Explore

At the Cosmosphere, there is a lot to see and do. And when you're here, you want to do everything. That's why we've made sample itineraries for one-, two-, three- and four-hour trips. Of course we always suggest a day trip for the maximum experience! (see www.cosmo.org/vi_plan.htm)
Description

Wikipedia:
The Cosmosphere is best known for the display and restoration of spaceflight artifacts and educational camps.
 

Facilities

The Cosmosphere grew from a planetarium established on the Kansas State Fairgrounds in 1962. The facility now houses the largest collection of Russian space artifacts outside of Moscow, and the second largest collection of space artifacts in the world, second only to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

The Cosmosphere has 4 venues: The Hall of Space Museum, The Justice Planetarium, The Carey Digital Dome Theatre, and Dr. Goddard's Lab, which is a live science presentation. The Cosmosphere also hosts a series of camps for children as young as those going into second grade, up to a camp designed for grandparents to attend with their grandchildren.

The only Smithsonian affiliate museum in Kansas, the Cosmosphere was voted one of the Eight Wonders of Kansas in a 2008 poll.

The Carey Digital Dome Theater upgraded from IMAX to 4K digital projection.
 

Collection

Included in the Cosmosphere's collection are a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft from Mercury 4 and the Odyssey command module from Apollo 13, as well as Redstone and Titan II launch vehicles used in the Mercury and Gemini programs. A prized item on display is a moon rock from Apollo 11, the first manned mission to land on the moon.

The Cosmosphere is the only museum in the world that has both an authentic restored V-1 flying bomb and an authentic restored V-2 missile. It is also the only museum outside of Russia that has an authentic, flown Vostok capsule.

Nearly all of the vehicles, rockets, spacecraft, and spacesuits on display are either authentic or a "flight-ready backup," which is identical to the item actually flown: if a problem is detected in a spacecraft, rocket, or suit before it is flown, the backup fills in on the mission for the damaged item. The only replicated items in the Cosmosphere are the model of Glamorous Glennis, the Bell X-1 flown by Chuck Yeager, and the life-sized space shuttle replica that greets visitors.

The Cosmosphere museum begins with the earliest experiments in rocketry during the World War II era, explores through the Space Race and Cold War, and continues through modern times with the Space Shuttle and International Space Station.
 

Items on display

Liberty Bell 7 Mercury spacecraft, recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Gemini X space capsule
Apollo 13 command module Odyssey
An actual Apollo White Room
A Titan II rocket used in the Gemini program
A Russian Vostok space capsule
A replica of the X-1 flown by Chuck Yeager, Glamorous Glennis, used in the filming of The Right Stuff
An engine from Glamorous Glennis flown by Yeager
An X-15 rocket engine
A U.S. Air Force SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance plane
A backup version of the Vanguard 1 satellite
Moon rock collected during Apollo 11
A Mercury-Redstone rocket
Restored versions of World War II V-1 and V-2 rockets
Prototype and space-flown American and Russian spacesuits
A full-scale mock-up of Space Shuttle Endeavour (left side only)
A section from the Berlin Wall - last section removed
A Lunar Rover
A Lunar Module
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Craft
A copy of the sphere-shaped Soviet pennant flown on Luna 2
Piece of tile from the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
A flight-ready backup for Sputnik 1
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