Photo courtesy of Justin Lister
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COSMOSPHERE
Step inside the Cosmosphere, Kansas’ only Smithsonian-affiliated
museum and science education center, where the lobby explodes
with an authentic SR-71 Blackbird spy plane! Guests from all over
the world come to admire the unique artifacts--including the largest
collection of Russian space artifacts outside of Moscow--like the flown
Gemini X and the authentic Apollo 13 Odyssey. Other notable pieces
include the V-1 and V-2 rockets, a flight-ready back-up Sputnik and an
actual Moon rock brought home from the first Moon landing by Neil
Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. In addition, visitors can
see rocket science brought to life with a bang in Dr. Goddard’s Lab,
watch documentaries in amazing scale in a 4K digital dome theater,
and gain new insight into the universe in the Cosmosphere’s state-ofthe
art Planetarium.