Hutch Post

HUTCHINSON — The Liberty Bell-7 returned to Hutchinson on Monday morning after an 8-month stay in Europe.

The spacecraft had been in Germany where it was part of a temporary exhibit, “Outer Space: The Space Between Art and Science,” developed in cooperation with the German Aerospace Center.

The 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” will stay at the Cosmosphere until the end of the year when it goes on display at the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis