BONNE TERRE’S SPACE MUSEUM GEARING UP FOR SPECIAL EVENTS

February 27, 2024 - Daily Journal Online

“‘Calling all community members! The Space Museum and Grissom Center is gearing up for three big events in March and April… The first event for the museum in 2024 is a trivia night… A special evening event called Night at the Museum takes place at the museum on March 12… The museum will celebrate Gus’s Birthday Bash on Saturday, April 27th.”

Space camp offers STEM learning experiences

July 29, 2023 - Daily Journal Online

“‘4-H leads the content for the Missouri S&T’s aerospace camp, so I had space on my mind getting ready for that,’ said Amsden. ‘Of course, having an amazing space museum in our county certainly made the idea more exciting.’ Thanks to a Rotary Club grant, the free Girl Powered Space Camp — the by-girls-for-girls event — was created. The camp is the combined effort between St. Francois County 4-H, Rotary Club, and The Space Museum and Grissom Center in Bonne Terre.”

Bonne Terre gears up for “Women in Space”

April 30, 2023 - Daily Journal Online

“Touching the past and inspiring the future. That’s what a very special group of ladies have done and continue to do. These nine women are part of Saturday’s extraordinary event at The Space Museum and Grissom Center. Tickets are still available but are limited.”

Space Museum Promo

April 5, 2023 - UniTec Career Center

“May the 6th, we are doing another large event. It’s called Show Me Space 2023. This time it’s totally devoted to women. Our keynote speaker is Eileen Collins, the first female shuttle commander.”

NASA COMES HOME: Museum explores local space connection

April 15, 2022 - West Newsmagazine

“There’s a hidden treasure in Bonne Terre, Missouri, and it’s not the Billion Gallon Lake that now fills the abandoned Doe Run lead mine, though the world’s largest subterranean lake is something to see. No, this must-see is focused more on our history above the earth.”

Space museum holds out-of-this-world birthday bash

April 6, 2022 - Daily Journal Online

“It was an out-of-this-world birthday bash. Cake, balloons, games, stomp rockets, door prizes, bounce house, science show, museum tours and more were some of the activities at The Space Museum in Bonne Terre on Saturday. There were plenty of guests, including many notable people who took part in the festivities.”

Astronaut’s moon rock award moved from Disney’s Epcot to museum

April 2, 2022 - CollectSpace

“Fifty years after it was brought back from the moon, a small lunar rock has moved from the "Most Magical Place on Earth" to the "Show Me State.” NASA presented the moon rock to The Space Museum and Grissom Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri on Saturday (April 2), 15 years after it was first placed on exhibit at the Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.”

Special unveiling at Gus Grissom’s birthday bash Saturday at space museum

March 30, 2022 - Daily Journal Online

“He was a Mercury 7 astronaut, Air Force pilot and American hero. He was the second American astronaut to fly in space and also the second American to do it twice. This accomplished astronaut’s name was Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom, and he would have celebrated his 96th birthday on Sunday.”

The Space Museum: Where dreams continue to grow

November 9, 2021 - Daily Journal Online

“A famous astronaut’s helmet. Space suits from Mercury and Gemini programs. Special items that were on display at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in California. These are only a few of the new additions to The Space Museum in Bonne Terre.”

Space Museum celebrates Grissom’s birthday

April 8, 2021 - Daily Journal Online

“He was not only the second American astronaut to fly in space, but he was the first American to do it twice. Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom would have turned 95 on April 3. In honor of his birthday, a celebration is taking place Saturday at The Space Museum in Bonne Terre.”

Reach for the stars at Bonne Terre’s Space Museum

May 21, 2020 - The Columbia Missourian

“Earl Mullins likes to look up. A self-professed product of the space age, he spent his youth staring at the sky. He had a front row seat to the USA v. USSR space race, and with each aeronautical development, his fascination with outer space grew stronger. Now he shares his passion with the world at his Space Museum in Bonne Terre, encouraging all who visit to shoot for the moon when it comes to their dreams.”

Stars Aligned: Grissom Center Space Museum Grand Opening

August 28, 2019 - HEC Media

“The stars aligned in the Historic mining town of Bonne Terre, Missouri for the Grand Opening of the Grissom Center. Space Royalty including NASA Astronauts, a Shuttle Flight Director, The “Mercury Six” engineers and hundreds of locals and tourists joined Space Museum owner Earl Mullins and the Grissom Family for the museum ribbon cutting ceremony.”

Space Museum to celebrate expansion

February 20, 2019 - Daily Journal Online

“On March 16, the Bonne Terre Space Museum will host astronauts, authors, and even a public television celebrity as part of their “Show Me Space” event, to celebrate the grand opening of a new addition called The Grissom Center.”

Bonne Terre Space Museum

January 15, 2019 - Nine PBS

“It’s not where you’d expect it, but the Space Museum in Bonne Terre, Missouri keeps growing thanks to the dedication of its founder".”

Space Museum - Houston, We Have A Solution.

January 2019 — 573 Magazine

“Wow, did I get a surprise when I walked into the new Grissom Space Museum! Located in the center of Bonne Terre is a group of very passionate people busy setting up a world-class museum.”

Retired McDonnell Aircraft Engineers Make a Difference

October 16, 2018 — HEC Media

“Retired McDonnell Aircraft Engineers who designed and built the NASA Mercury, Gemini Capsules, known as the iconic, ‘Mercury Six’ continue to share their brilliance and dedication that sent us to the Moon in a decade.”

The Mercury 6: Project Mercury engineers reflect on those early steps toward the moon.

February 3, 2016 — Boeing

“They were the engineers behind the scenes of Project Mercury, in the beginning mere 20-somethings barely out of college. There was no age limitation on winning the race to space.”

Crowd gathers to see uncrating of shuttle engine

September 17, 2012 — Daily Journal Online

“Charlie Walker, a former McDonnell Douglas astronaut, was the special speaker Saturday morning at an uncrating celebration of more than $16 million in space shuttle main engine components.”

Bonne Terre, we have ignition

July 20, 2009 - Daily Journal Online

“Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six. Five. Four. Three. Two. One. Ignition. Onlookers watched Sunday morning as the General Aviation Space Group launched a rocket 3,319 feet into the sky.”

The Space Museum In Bonne Terre MO

July 14, 2009 — KFVS 12 News

“The launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour in Florida was scrubbed Monday, but some folks in Bonne Terre are planning a rocket launch of their own.”

Bonne Terre: To space and beyond

April 28, 2009 — Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

“Earl Mullins was a mere boy when he spied an object burning its way through the evening sky around 50 years ago. The satellite Echo, said to be brighter than many stars, transfixed Mullins. It was the beginning of a lifelong passion for space.”

Astronauts descend on Bonne Terre

July 13, 2008 - Daily Journal Online

“People visiting Bonne Terre Saturday learned a little bit about gravity and rockets and a lot about two well-known astronauts.”

Earl Mullins has liftoff. Years in the making, his space museum in Bonne Terre has taken flight.

July 9,2008 — Riverfront Times

“Stepping from the quiet streets of Bonne Terre into Earl Mullins' space museum is like bringing one's eye to a telescope and being struck dizzy with stars. A rocket engine, two feet of sleek metal tubes and chambers, sits on a pedestal near the front door. It's the real deal, an LR-64 that delivers 1,000 pounds of thrust.”

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