Ad Astra per Aspera - Cosmosphere, Huchinson KS - Stained Glass Windows on Waymarking.com

'Ad Astra per Aspera' took 19 artists three years and over 4000 hours to complete. The motto means 'To the stars through difficulties', adopted in 1861 as the Kansas State Motto, and in this context forms a memorial to the hard work of those who created and operated the space flight program in the United States, and those who lost their lives in the effort.

The window itself incorporates the motto, the United States flag, Kansas wheat, as well as artistically designed images of a spacewalking astronaut, stars, planets, galaxies, rockets, the space shuttle on takeoff, and the mission patches of three attempts which ended in disaster - Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia. Those missions are also memorialized by artifacts actually built into the pane.

The design and creation were directed by Randall and Pamela Rayer, of Rayers Bearden Stained Glass in Wichita, in collaboration with Kansas Cosmosphere staff. The finished product is displayed in the visitor gallery at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas.

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Type of building where window is located: Museum Address: 1100 N Plum St Hutchinson, KS USA 67501 Admission Charge: 7.00 (listed in local currency) Days of Operation: 7 days Hours of Operation: From: 9:00 AM To: 5:00 PM

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Date Logged Log User Rating   09/26/2020 The Snowdog visited it