HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Liberty Bell 7 returned to Hutchinson this morning after its stay overseas.
The spacecraft has been in Germany where it was part part of a temporary exhibit, “Outer Space: The Space Between Art and Science.” The exhibit was developed in cooperation with the German Aerospace Center. The spacecraft has been away from the Cosmosphere since August of last year.
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.
The “Bell” wont stay at the Cosmosphere long as it will leave for the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis at the end of this year.