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Photo Diary: Cosmosphere Space Museum, Hutchinson KS [1]

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Date: 2023-09-07

This is a VERY nice space history museum, about an hour away from Wichita KS. It has some quite interesting displays, including some unusual stuff. Some of these are worth their own history diary later. Many of the exhibits are space-flown, others are flight-ready backups or spares, some are engineering or test mockups, and a few are replicas.

Alas, I fear the museum does not get the visitorship that it should, since it is located right in the middle of flyover country, but I found it well worth a visit. I spent the whole day here.

Some photos.

For those who don't know, I live in a converted campervan and travel around the country, posting photo diaries of places that I visit.

The museum

Mercury/Redstone mockup

Titan/Gemini mockup

Liberty Bell 7, the spaceship that tried to drown Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom

Inside the Liberty Bell 7

SR-71 Blackbird landing gear tire. The rubber was mixed with aluminum powder to withstand higher landing speeds.

German WW2 V-1

A replica of the Bell X-1 “Glamorous Glennis”, used in the movie “The Right Stuff”

Soviet Sputnik, the first satellite. A flight-ready backup.

A cutaway engineering model of the Soviet Sputnik 2 satellite, which carried the dog “Laika” into space

Cutaway replica of Explorer I, the first US satellite

Wreckage from the Mercury-Atlas I, an unmanned test flight which blew up on launch

Flight couch used by the chimp Enos during an orbital Mercury-Atlas test flight

Vostok capsule, used by the USSR in an unmanned test flight

Replica Soviet Voskhod spaceship

Flight-ready backup Soviet Volga airlock, the type used in the first spacewalk

Gemini 10 spaceship

Surveyor lunar probe, an engineering mockup

Recovered wreckage from the Apollo 11 Saturn V booster

Apollo 13 command module

Inside the Apollo 13 CM

Space Shuttle toilet

Artifacts from the Soviet Mir space station

Fun with rocket fuel

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