For the first time in eight years, the Cosmosphere’s Liberty Bell-7 Space capsule is preparing to leave its home at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center for The Art and Exhibition Hall in Germany. In August, the craft will become part of a temporary exhibit, “Outer Space: The Space Between Art and Science.” The exhibit, developed in cooperation with the German Aerospace Center and will be on display October 3, 2014, through February 22, 2015, at which point Liberty Bell 7 will return home to the Cosmosphere.

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.

A farewell exhibit, opening at the Cosmosphere May 10, 2014, titled “A New Flight Path for Liberty Bell 7,” will highlight this remarkable piece of the Cosmosphere’s collection with supporting artifacts recovered from the craft during the restoration process.