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| "Houston, we have a problem." The Apollo 13 command module "Oddesy" at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. After an explosion on the spacecraft Apollo 13 had to abort its mission to land on the Moon and try to get home safely. |
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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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