HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The SpaceWorks division of the Kansas Cosmosphere is spending the day moving the 
Liberty Bell-7 out of the hall of space museum and over to its facility.
It’s there that they will prepare the spacecraft for its move overseas. For the first time in eight years, the Cosmosphere’s Liberty Bell-7 Space capsule is preparing to leave its home for The Art and Exhibition Hall in Germany. In August, the craft will become part of a temporary exhibit, “Outer Space: The Space Between Art and Science.” The exhibit, developed in cooperation with the German Aerospace Center, will be on display October 3, 2014 through February 22, 2015, at which point Liberty Bell-7 will return home to the Cosmosphere.
As you may remember, Liberty Bell -7, piloted by Virgil “Gus” Grissom, ended with the craft lost at the bottom of the ocean for 38 years until a joint recovery effort by the Kansas Cosmosphere’s SpaceWorks team and The Discovery Channel in June 1999.