The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center’s newest gallery, the Mollett Early Spaceflight Gallery, opens to the public June 18.
The Hutchinson, Kan., museum’s newest gallery showcases manned space exploration efforts that began in 1959, including the flown Gemini X spacecraft, a flown Russian Vostok, as well as space suits used in the Mercury, Gemini, Vostok and Voskhod programs. Gus Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft will be on display in the gallery after the conclusion of its national tour in early 2006.