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Cosmosphere Receives Continued Hansen Foundation Grant for Outreach Programs

January 28, 2019
The Dane G. Hansen Foundation has awarded the Cosmosphere $100,000 per year for the next five years to provide unique STEM educational opportunities to Northwest Kansas students.
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PUBLIC INVITED TO OPENING OF B-29 DOC HANGER AND EDUCATION CENTER

January 21, 2019
The expertise of the Cosmosphere SpaceWorks team will be on display at the new B-29 Doc Hangar and Education Center in Wichita when the new facility opens to the public for the first time on Jan. 26.
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Grow Your Way to a Cosmosphere Camp!

January 9, 2019
Calling all students 6th-8th grade: You are invited to see who can grow the most food within a one cubic meter garden space!
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RCB Bank to Provide Ten Cosmosphere Camp Scholarships

January 9, 2019
RCB Bank is partnering with the Cosmosphere International Science Education Center & Space Museum in Hutchinson, KS, to send ten students in sixth through eighth grade to Cosmosphere Camp this summer.
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LIVE IMAGES FROM MARS TO BE SHOWN AT COSMOSPHERE

November 19, 2018
On Monday, Nov. 26, from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. current NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mission Control engineer (and Cosmosphere Camp alum), Michael Staab, will offer commentary as live images are transmitted from the Mars Insight lander as it descends on the surface of Mars.
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Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day 2020

Date: Saturday, April 04, 2020 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Location:Cosmosphere

Join us Saturday, April 4, 2020 for Smithsonian magazine Museum Day! (Please note we are open from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm on Saturday, April 4, 2020.)

Cosmosphere guests that show their printed ticket receive FREE admission into the Hall of Space Museum for two guests. Tickets available HERE beginning February 27, 2020.

Mark your calendar for America’s annual celebration of boundless curiosity. Museum Day brings together museums, zoos & cultural centers from all 50 states to offer free admission to all ticket holders. This year, Museum Day will celebrate EARTH OPTIMISM!

Museum Day is moving from Fall to Spring in 2020 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The annual Museum Day event will take place on Saturday, April 4th.

Early Closing of the building at 3 pm

Date: Saturday, April 04, 2020
Location:Cosmosphere

The Cosmosphere will be closing early at 3 pm on Saturday, April 4, 2020, to prepare for our Apollo 13 50th Anniversary Gala. We will be open normal business hours on Sunday. We're sorry for any inconvenience.

Apollo 13 50th Anniversary Gala

Date: Saturday, April 04, 2020 6:00 PM – 11:59 AM
Location:Cosmosphere

SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2020

“HOUSTON, WE’VE HAD A PROBLEM.”

These words set in motion a historic series of events. For three days, three astronauts huddled in the Aquarius Lunar Module as the Mission Control team on Earth worked to solve the problem of how to bring them home. Meanwhile, the world united in prayer and hope for the survival of three Americans 200,000 miles from Earth.

No other space mission before or since called on the collaboration of so many in Mission Control and beyond to solve such a critical challenge. Apollo 13: A Mission of Survival. A Mission of Teamwork. A Mission of Hope. Join us to celebrate the great Victory of Apollo 13, where the Apollo 13 Command Module, Odyssey, was restored, preserved and is proudly on display in Cosmosphere’s Apollo Gallery.

Slated to appear: Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Gene Kranz, Gerry Griffin, Milt Windler, John Aaron, Jerry Bostick, Vance Brand, Chuck Deiterich, Ed Fendell, Spencer Gardner, Jack Lousma, Ed Smylie, Frank VanRensselaer and…Andrew Chaikin, Author; Michael Griffin, Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and former NASA Administrator. Glynn Lunney will be a pre-recorded video.*

For all the details, including ticket pricing, see the Apollo 13 webpage here.