8. Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center – Hutchinson, Kansas

Kansas Cosmosphere

The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is a STEM education center and museum in Hutchinson, Kansas, United States.

It houses over 13,000 spaceflight artifacts – the largest combined collection of US and Russian spaceflight artifacts in the world and is home to internationally acclaimed educational programs.

Here you’ll find the command module from Apollo 13, an SR-71 Blackbird, spacesuits, a planetarium, a theater and a well-displayed timeline of human spaceflight.