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| Liberty Bell 7, the Mercury 4 spacecraft piloted by astronaut Gus Grissom was the 2nd manned American space mission in 1961. The capsul was lost at sea after spashdown. It was recovered in 1999 and restored by the Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson. |
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Website : www.kansas.gov |
Capital
: Topeka |
Highest
point : Mount
Sunflower, 4,039 feet |
Area : 82,282 square miles,
15th largest state. |
Population : 2,688,418
(2000 census) |
Motto
:
Ad astra per aspra (To the stars
through difficulties) |
Admitted to
Union : January 29, 1861 |
State
Song : "Home on the Range" |
State Bird : Western Medowlark |
State Flower
: Sunflower
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State Tree : Cottonwood
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