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Mercury space capsule returns to Kansas after overseas art exhibition [i]A historic U.S. spacecraft that launched the second American astronaut to space has landed back in Kansas after spending eight months overseas. Liberty Bell 7, the Mercury capsule that NASA astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew on a 15-minute sub-orbital flight in 1961, returned to the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson Monday (April 20). The small craft, which was barely large enough to seat its one pilot, was on temporary display in Bonn, Germany as part the exhibit "Outer Space: The Space Between Art and Science" that ran from October 2014 through late February of this year. "She's back!" Cosmosphere officials wrote on Facebook, sharing photos of the capsule as it was offloaded from a truck and into the museum's SpaceWorks restoration and fabrication facility. "Liberty Bell 7 has safely returned from her voyage across the sea."[/i]
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