page_title: Cosmosphere
section_title: Collection
hierarchical_section_title: Cosmosphere / Collection
caption_attribution_description: English: The control panel of the Apollo 13 capsule. Photo taken July 17 at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson.
context_page_description: Cosmosphere is a space museum and STEM education center in Hutchinson, Kansas, United States. It was previously known as the Kansas Cosmosphere. The museum houses over 13,000 spaceflight artifacts—the largest combined collection of US and Russian spaceflight artifacts in the world—and is home to internationally acclaimed educational programs.
context_section_description: Flown items included in the Cosmosphere's collection are a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the Liberty Bell 7 Mercury spacecraft, the Gemini 10 space capsule, and the Command Module Odyssey from Apollo 13. Additionally, authentic Redstone and Titan II launch vehicles used in the Mercury and Gemini programs flank the building's exterior.  A prized item on display is a Moon rock from Apollo 11, the first manned mission to land on the Moon.
  Every artifact on display at the Cosmosphere is either an actual flown artifact, a "flight-ready backup" (identical to the item actually flown), an engineering model, or an historically accurate replica.
  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, as well as SpaceShipOne and commercial spaceflight.
  Notable Items on display:
  Germany
  Restored World War II German V-1 flying bomb missile (authentic)
  Restored World War II German V-2 rocket (authentic)
  Section of the Berlin Wall - last section removed (authentic)
  Russia / Soviet Union / USSR
  Sputnik 1 (flight-ready backup)
  Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Craft (joint venture with USA)
  Vostok space capsule (competitor against Mercury program)
  Voskhod 2 space capsule (competitor against Gemini program)
  Prototype and flown Russian space suits
  United States
  Winged aircraft
  Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance plane (flown)
  Northrop T-38 Talon supersonic jet trainer in NASA livery (flown)
  North American X-15 rocket engine (flown)
  Replica of the Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis, used in the filming of The Right Stuff movie
  Engine from Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis, pilot Chuck Yeager (flown)
  Mercury space program
  Liberty Bell 7 Mercury spacecraft, recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only spacecraft flown by NASA but owned by an entity other than NASA or the Smithsonian (owned by Cosmosphere).
  Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle rocket (authentic) (standing vertical outdoors)
  Gemini space program
  Gemini 10 space capsule (flown)
  Titan II rocket used in the Gemini program (authentic) (standing vertical outdoors)
  Apollo space program
  Apollo 13 command module Odyssey (flown)
  Lunar Roving Vehicle (full-scale replica)
  Lunar Module (full-scale replica)
  Apollo White Room (authentic)
  Moon rock collected during Apollo 11
  Space Shuttle space program
  Full-scale replica of Space Shuttle Endeavour (left side only)
  Piece of tile from the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster (flown)
  Various space programs
  Vanguard 1 satellite (flight-ready backup)
  Prototype and flown American space suits
caption: Interior view of the Apollo 13 capsule (2009)
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