Showing through September 1: If you feel it, chase it! Brace yourself for a heart-pounding, edge-of-your-seat experience as you face one of nature’s most awe-inspiring—and powerful—forces in Twisters, playing this weekend at the Cosmosphere’s dome theater. 🌪️🌪️🌪️ Be sure to ask about the movie night combo for two adults at the Box Office. Keep cool at the best space museum on planet Earth this weekend! For showtimes and tickets, see https://bit.ly/3M4Ob9R. | Cosmosphere
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Showing through September 1: If you feel it, chase it! Brace yourself for a heart-pounding, edge-of-your-seat experience as you face one of nature’s most awe-inspiring—and powerful—forces in Twisters, playing this weekend at the Cosmosphere’s dome theater. 🌪️🌪️🌪️ Be sure to ask about the movie night combo for two adults at the Box Office. Keep cool at the best space museum on planet Earth this weekend! For showtimes and tickets, see https://bit.ly/3M4Ob9R. | Cosmosphere
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Happy Spring Break! The Cosmosphere is THE Spring Break Place for REAL spacecraft, REAL space artifacts, and REAL space heroes! And did you know the Cosmosphere is the ONLY Smithsonian-affiliate museum in Kansas? We're open every day through March 17, from 9-7 pm! Plan your spring break trip today at cosmo.org! 🌻🚀☀️ | Cosmosphere
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Happy Spring Break! The Cosmosphere is THE Spring Break Place for REAL spacecraft, REAL space artifacts, and REAL space heroes! And did you know the Cosmosphere is the ONLY Smithsonian-affiliate museum in Kansas? We're open every day through March 17, from 9-7 pm! Plan your spring break trip today at cosmo.org! 🌻🚀☀️ | Cosmosphere
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Students in our spring break camp, Spring Into STEAM, will use a water still to learn how astronauts turn their own, um, waste into extremely pure drinking water! Spring Into STEAM will take place on March 17-21, 2025 and is open to 4th through 6th grade students. Register your student now at cosmocamps.org! #steam #stem #space #science #spaceeducation #scienceeducation #camp #springbreak #cosmosphere #cosmospherecamps | Cosmosphere
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Students in our spring break camp, Spring Into STEAM, will use a water still to learn how astronauts turn their own, um, waste into extremely pure drinking water! Spring Into STEAM will take place on March 17-21, 2025 and is open to 4th through 6th grade students. Register your student now at cosmocamps.org! #steam #stem #space #science #spaceeducation #scienceeducation #camp #springbreak #cosmosphere #cosmospherecamps | Cosmosphere
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You can take our 30 second tour, seen here, OR an hour long Free Guided Museum Tour*, today, Saturday, March 20. Free tours are for ticketed guests and are offered on the hour from Noon to 4 p.m. *Dramamine not needed for hour long guided tour. | Cosmosphere
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You can take our 30 second tour, seen here, OR an hour long Free Guided Museum Tour*, today, Saturday, March 20. Free tours are for ticketed guests and are offered on the hour from Noon to 4 p.m. *Dramamine not needed for hour long guided tour. | Cosmosphere
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Launch into summer STEM fun at Cosmosphere Aerospace Camp! | Cosmosphere
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Launch into summer STEM fun at Cosmosphere Aerospace Camp! | Cosmosphere
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Hey, Planet Comicon Kansas City – the Mercury spacecraft, Liberty Bell 7, is on its way to YOU! Liberty Bell 7 will be on display at PCKC, April 22-24. LB7 will be back on display at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS, on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. | Cosmosphere
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Hey, Planet Comicon Kansas City – the Mercury spacecraft, Liberty Bell 7, is on its way to YOU! Liberty Bell 7 will be on display at PCKC, April 22-24. LB7 will be back on display at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS, on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. | Cosmosphere
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🚀 Launch Your Child’s Imagination This Summer! 🌟 This summer, give your child an out-of-this-world experience at Cosmosphere Summer Space Camps! Designed for grades 3-12, our immersive camps ignite curiosity through hands-on space, science, and STEAM programs. 🔭 What Awaits Your Young Explorer? ✅ Build & launch real rockets ✅ Train like an astronaut with exciting simulations ✅ Explore robotics, coding, and engineering challenges ✅ Engage in interactive science experiments ✅ Learn from space e
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🚀 Launch Your Child’s Imagination This Summer! 🌟 This summer, give your child an out-of-this-world experience at Cosmosphere Summer Space Camps! Designed for grades 3-12, our immersive camps ignite curiosity through hands-on space, science, and STEAM programs. 🔭 What Awaits Your Young Explorer? ✅ Build & launch real rockets ✅ Train like an astronaut with exciting simulations ✅ Explore robotics, coding, and engineering challenges ✅ Engage in interactive science experiments ✅ Learn from space e
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A summer 2024 Cosmosphere Camp is the perfect experience for the science-minded or space-loving student on your list. Get your third through 12th grader the camp they want today for summer 2024. Scholarships are available! Don't wait too long as camps are almost 50% full – register today at www.CosmoCamps.org. | Cosmosphere
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It is a natural history epic. It is a detective story. Join hundreds of millions of real butterflies on an amazing journey to a remote and secret hideaway and one scientist’s 40-year search to unravel the mystery – where do they go each fall? Experience the Flight of the Butterflies, now showing in the Cosmosphere's Dome Theater. See cosmo.org for showtimes and tickets. 🦋🦋🦋 | Cosmosphere
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🧐 🧐 CURIOUS MINDS WANTED. Cosmosphere Camp registration IS NOW OPEN! Make your plans now for the curious child in your life to have the best camp experience in 2021! To ensure the safest experience, camp session sizes will be limited – so register early! New camps, new experiences and new super cool Cosmosphere Camp gear await. Get ready for the Best. Summer. Experience. Ever!🤩 👊 🙌 👩‍🚀 🚀 🛰️ 💥 💯 Discover adventure at cosmocamps.org | Cosmosphere
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Curious about space exploration? The museum that tells the story of human space exploration better than any other is in the center of the Heartland just waiting to be included in your summer vacation plans! The Cosmosphere, in Hutchinson, KS, features the world's largest combined collection of U.S. and Soviet-era space artifacts. From a flown Vostok to the Apollo 13 spacecraft–you won't believe what's here until you see it! | Cosmosphere
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Looking for the perfect summer camp adventure for a science-minded student entering grades three through 12? 2024 Cosmosphere Camps offers space exploration, team building, coding, flying drones, an outdoor challenge course, and, of course, space exploration! Enroll today...camps are filling up fast, and some are already sold out! Scholarships are available through February 29! Don't wait — visit cosmocamps.org today! 👩🏻‍🔬👨🏼‍🚀🔬🔭 | Cosmosphere
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On your mark. Get set. Blast off at the Cosmosphere in Visit Hutch! Read Colby's Cosmosphere blog: https://www.travelks.com/blog/stories/post/good-day-kansas-explores-cosmosphere-hutchinson/ #ToTheStarsKS | Kansas Tourism
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WORLD PREMIERE TONIGHT: Join us this tonight, Oct. 20, for the worldwide premiere of Moon on the Prairie, a documentary that will make you so glad to be part of the heartland and the Cosmosphere! It will be shown in the Cosmosphere Planetarium during the Lunapalooza Gala Friday. Tickets for Lunapalooza are still available here: www.cosmoevents.org Can't make it to Lunapalooza? You're in luck, "Moon on the Prairie" will be shown on PBS Kansas Channel 8 on Thursday, October 26 at 8:30 pm CT. | Cos
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Do you have the Right Stuff? Where can a curious child fly space missions just like astronauts? Or build rockets, and program drones in a STEMtacular summer camp? Cosmosphere Camps in Hutchinson, KS! Registration is now open with limited-time special offers. 🚀👨🏽‍🚀🙌🤩 Discover adventure at cosmocamps.org. | Cosmosphere
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This Thursday, Coffee at the Cosmo will be a panel all about the Space Shuttle's legacy. Friend of the Cosmosphere astronaut Don Thomas will be one of the panel members joining remotely. Here he is recalling one of his favorite memories from one of his Shuttle missions. For more stories like this, come to the Cosmosphere's banquet room at 9:00 a.m. this Thursday! | Cosmosphere
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What does it take to fly NASA's ER-2? A large crew of people who are passionate about their aerospace careers. Our Mission: Lunar Trek camp for students entering 10th and 11th grade sparks an interest in aerospace in our students. Registration is closed for June, but you can still register for our July camps! For the next two weeks, new registrants get 13% off! Go to cosmo.org/camps to register your student today! | Cosmosphere
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Happy birthday to Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13! The Cosmosphere is proud to house Apollo 13's command module, Odyssey, and because of this we've had the honor of hosting Capt. Lovell. He is an American hero and a genuinely good person, and we wish him the greatest of birthdays. #Apollo13 #JimLovell #HappyBirthdayJimLovell #NASA #Space #Cosmosphere | Cosmosphere
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Coming soon to the Cosmosphere's Justice Planetarium: Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon 50th Anniversary planetarium show. The show offers breath-taking views of the solar system and beyond, played out to 42 minutes of The Dark Side Of The Moon in surround sound. Combined with the technology of Cosmosphere's Justice Planetarium, guests will have a visual and musical experience that transcends reality--just as the members of the iconic band hoped when they embraced this project. Tickets on sale
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Happy 62nd birthday to...US! 🥳🥳 The Cosmosphere's founder, Patty Carey, opened the doors to the first planetarium in Kansas on December 2, 1962, called "Hutchinson's Theatre of the Skies." It was tucked into a corner of the poultry building at the Kansas State Fair. This humble beginning has blossomed into an internationally recognized, Smithsonian-affiliated institution – now called the Cosmosphere International Science Education Center and Space Museum. Learn more about the history of the Co
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Hard Hat Series #25: New Addition in Our Planetarium Lobby We're continuously improving the Cosmosphere! We recently added a new display to the lobby outside our Justice Planetarium and Dr. Goddard's Rocket Lab Experience. And you don't even need a ticket to see it! The next time you're at the Cosmosphere, head down to the Planetarium Lobby and learn about the Explorer 8 satellite with the help of our highly detailed model. Welcome to the Cosmosphere's Hard Hat Series! In this series, we will sh
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Have you seen how the Super Guppy opens for loading? So cool! | Cosmosphere
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The Cosmosphere has a new option for outreaches! If you're too far away to come visit us, let us come visit you! Our educators can now bring a planetarium to your school or event center and teach about astronomy and the night sky. And if your school district is in Northwest Kansas, we can come to you for free thanks to a generous grant from the Dane G. Hansen Foundation! Book your outreach today by going to cosmo.org/outreach! #cosmosphere #education #steam #stem #steameducation #stemeducation #
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Join us in the Cosmosphere's Banquet Room at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 15 for a panel about the legacy of the Space Shuttle! The panel, led by John Mulnix, will include astronaut Don Thomas, author Bruce McCandless III, and author and podcaster Emily Carney. Admission is free! | Cosmosphere
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The Cosmosphere and Learning Lab Wichita are teaming up to bring Cosmosphere Camps to the Air Capital! This day camp for 3rd-5th graders will use exciting hands-on activities to teach STEM principles. It will be held July 21-25 at Learning Lab Wichita. Spots are limited, so go to cosmocamps.org to register now! | Cosmosphere
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Cosmosphere STEAM Educator Mary Smith explains why you should not miss the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. 1. The next eclipse to sweep across the U.S. will be on August 12, 2045 2. Unlike the 2017 Great American Eclipse, which lasted 2 minutes and 40 seconds, the eclipse on April 8th will have a maximum time of 4 minutes and 28 seconds. 3. A total solar eclipse is the only time we can glimpse the corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, on Earth. 4. Even if you don’t live in the path of totali
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Today, we honor astronaut Gus Grissom on what would have been his 99th birthday. The Cosmosphere is proud to house the Mercury space capsule in which he flew in 1961, Liberty Bell 7. This capsule spent 38 years at the bottom of the ocean before it was preserved and restored by SpaceWorks, a division of the Cosmosphere which specializes in restoration and fabrication. For more information about SpaceWorks, visit cosmo.org/spaceworks. #space #nasa #gusgrissom #mercurycapsule #mercuryprogram #mercu
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Hard Hat Series 8: Construction Update Part 3 Welcome to the Cosmosphere's Hard Hat Series! In this series, we will show you what's going on in the construction areas while parts of our Hall of Space Museum are under renovation and give you an idea of what exciting things are to come, showcase artifacts you may have never seen before, take you on behind-the-scenes tours of the Cosmosphere, and much more! The renovated Hall of Space Museum galleries are set to open in Winter 2024. Discover more a
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Does your Scout or Girl Scout need a STEAM related badge? Bring them to the Cosmosphere! From robotics to space exploration, our overnight programs are out of this world! Go to cosmo.org/scouts to book an overnight program for your youth organization today! | Cosmosphere
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Get hands-on this summer with at trip to Dr. Goddard's Rocket Lab at the Cosmosphere! Take a trip back in time to the 1930s lab of Dr. Robert Goddard, the father of modern rocketry. This interactive show— packed with some explosive surprises— uses live demonstrations to take visitors on a journey through the history of rockets. Viewers are warned not to try these experiments at home! Read more at cosmo.org and book your showing today! | Cosmosphere
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