NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — To celebrate Cosmosphere’s 60th birthday and honor the 50th anniversary of Apollo 17, Cosmosphere is planning a gala event featuring a group of ten astronauts and NASA Mission Control veterans. It's just a little more than a month away.
"December 2 is our 60th anniversary gala and it's going to be a phenomenal event," said Cosmosphere CEO Jim Remar. "We're bringing in luminaries, such as Gene Kranz and Gerry Griffin, flight directors. We're bringing in Fred Haise from Apollo 13, Charlie Duke, Apollo 16, Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17, Shuttle astronauts Jeff Ashby and Steve Hawley. This will be an opportunity for Cosmosphere and the community to celebrate 60 wonderful years."
The event will take place December 2, 2022, 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the Meadowlark Building on the Kansas State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson. Tickets are on sale to the public now and are expected to sell out.
Total tickets are a little less than half gone, though the tickets for the most expensive Artemis package are down to just 55 available as of Saturday morning.
"It's going to be an incredible evening December 2nd," Remar said. "Then Saturday, the day after, we're going to be doing a book signing with Fred Haise. Fred wanted to do five book signings and Cosmosphere was one of those five and it will be the culminating signing event for him."
Both the Artemis and Shuttle levels of tickets for the Saturday event include a Priority Pass to Fred Haise’s book signing. To buy your tickets, go to cosmoevents.org.
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