UPDATE 3:40 p.m.  Editor’s note: The original version of this story incorrectly reported details of the accident.

MCPHERSON COUNTY — A Kansas man died in an accident just before 3:30 a.m. Thursday in McPherson County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2017 Mitsubishi Mirage driven by David L. Chamberlain Jr., 51, Haven, was southbound on Interstate 135 just south of Navajo Road.

The vehicle rear-ended a 1989 Rockwood Motorhome driven by Kenneth R. Shriver, 27, Wichita. The Mitsubishi then entered the west ditch, traveled through a KDOT fence and caught fire.

Chamberlain was pronounced dead at the scene.

Shriver was not injured. Chamberlain was not wearing a seat belt, according to the KHP.

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — There could be another player in the bid for the potential sale of Kroger’s C-Store business.

Casey’s General Stores has submitted an initial bid for Kroger’s convenience store business, according to news reports. Casey’s and 7-Eleven are said to be interested in the Kroger stores, which includes Kwik Shop.

The Ankeny, Iowa-based convenience store operator has been under pressure from activist investor JCP Investment Management to explore strategic alternatives, including a potential sale. Purchasing Kroger’s C-store business could quell the pressure to sell. If the deal were to go through, it would bring Casey’s back to the area. Casey’s had a store in South Hutchinson until it closed in July of 2013.

Kroger announced in October that it was exploring strategic alternatives for its convenience-store business, operating 784 stores across 18 states.

Casey’s General Stores operates more than 2,000 convenience stores in 15 Midwestern states. Approximately 57 percent of its stores are in small towns with populations of under 5,000, while 17 percent of its stores are in communities with populations greater than 20,000.

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — If your Valentine is an Apollo-era space enthusiast who loves wine, then the Cosmosphere has the perfect gift idea. It’s a boutique wine called Moonwalker, which features a beautiful label signed by three of the five living astronauts who walked on the moon.

Moonwalker wine is made available through the joint effort of the Cosmosphere and Holman Cellars. A limited supply of 1.5 liter and 750 ml bottles are autographed by Charlie Duke and Alan Bean. Digitized signatures of Harrison Schmitt, Charlie Duke and Alan Bean are available on 1.5 L and 750 ml bottles as well. Engraved signatures are available on labels of 9 L, 6 L and 3 L bottles.

The bottles will carry significance as the Cosmosphere begins the 50th anniversaries of the Apollo moon missions starting with Apollo 8 in December of this year and running to Apollo 17, which will have flown 50 years ago in December of 2022.

The wine is a 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon from a barrel donated exclusively to the Cosmosphere by Holman Cellars, a small, family-run micro winery in Napa Valley. A portion of the profits are donated back to the Cosmosphere.

Bottles carry a price tag between $120 and nearly $1,500 for hand-signed bottles.

Pricing and availability can be found at holmancellars.com/moonwalker. Sales are first come, first served, with allocation of just one bottle per person of the 1.5 L and three bottles per person of standard-sized 750 ml bottles. Hand-signed 750 ml and 1.5 L bottles are authorized by each signer, as well as the Cosmosphere, and will be sold one bottle per person until sold out.

For more information, contact Mimi Meredith at the Cosmosphere at 620-665-9339.

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The historic consoles used by NASA flight controllers to manage the first missions to land astronauts on the moon arrived at the Cosmosphere SpaceWorks facility in Hutchinson Monday morning.

The consoles are in Hutchinson for a full restoration that will last through the spring. The $5 million restoration will return Mission Operations Control Room-2 inside the Mission Control Center to how it looked at the time of Apollo 11, the first mission to land humans on the moon.

“The Mission Operations Control Room at the Johnson Space Center is the cathedral of manned space exploration” Cosmosphere CEO Jim Remar said. ”So for us to be involved in the restoration is an incredible honor.”

Space Center Houston, the visitor center for Johnson Space Center, together with NASA, Texas Historical Commission and the National Park Service are overseeing the project, with the goal of having it ready in time for the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing next year. The Park Service gave its approval for the restoration in 2017 given the room’s status as a National Historic Landmark since 1985.

“This will be a complete and accurate historical restoration,” Sandra Tetley, historic preservation officer and real property officer at Johnson Space Center, said. “It will not be a fix-it-up. Everything will be preserved and accurate, from buttons, button labels, lighting — everything will be completely accurate.”

Though the overall control room is being returned to its Apollo 11 appearance, the consoles will be configured to how they looked during the fourth moon landing in July 1971. The Apollo 15 mission included the first use of the lunar roving vehicle (lunar rover) and began the extended exploration of the moon.

SpaceWorks will carefully take apart the more than half-century old consoles in order to bring them back to life.

First used for NASA’s Gemini 4 mission in 1965 and retired after STS-53, the 52nd space shuttle mission in December 1992, the consoles’ electronics are largely no longer serviceable. As such, the displays and some of the other visible elements will be augmented with modern components in order to create the appearance that the consoles are operational.