Smack-dab in America’s Heartland may seem like an unlikely spot for a piece of Russian space hardware.

The Tommy Bartlett Exploratory in Wisconsin Dells acquired the 43-foot-long MIR core module in 1997 from a Moscow museum in need of money. It is one of only three manufactured by the Russians. One of the other two is warehoused in Russia and not on public display. The most famous MIR module that orbited Earth disintegrated in 2001 as it passed through the atmosphere in a calculated de-orbiting process. That leaves Bartlett’s MIR as the only such exhibit on Earth where visitors can explore.