Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center Earns Space Certification
from the Space Foundation COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Mar. 5, 2010)
-- The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, an extraordinary
educational, cultural, and historical facility located in
Hutchinson, Kansas, has been certified by the Space Foundation
as a Space Educational Product. The Cosmosphere is home to five
attractions, all designed to raise awareness and knowledge about
space and space exploration: - The Hall of Space Museum houses a
U.S. space artifact collection second only to the Smithsonian
National Air and Space Museum, including the actual Apollo 13
command module and the Liberty Bell 7 Mercury capsule, and the
largest collection of Russian space artifacts outside of Moscow,
including a flown Vostok spacecraft; - The Justice Planetarium
is a dome-shaped classroom featuring a multimedia exploration of
the solar system, navigational technology, deep space and
astronomical research; - Dr. Goddard's Lab presents live
demonstrations of early ro