Last month Walt Disney World celebrated the original Space Mountain‘s 50th anniversary. That’s a whole lot of years and a whole lot of people flying through the dark.

A Disney icon turns 50 years old on Wednesday. Space Mountain debuted at Walt Disney World on Jan. 15, 1975. “Like many great ideas, it came from the imagination of Walt Disney,” Steven ...

Space Mountain isn't the fastest ride around, ... (Mickey and friends wearing spiffy new space suits), along with a 2000-piece marching band that the music director had just four hours to organize.

Initial plans for Space Mountain by Walt Disney and his Imagineers in the early 1960s conceived of a spaceport in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland ... Disneyland kicks off Black Music Month with 40 ...

When the ride opened on Jan. 15, 1975, an Apollo moonwalker was its first passenger, NASA's insignia was on display and Space Mountain was dedicated to opening the new frontier.

Space Mountain, sponsored by RCA, at the Magic Kingdom. Guests stand in line to ride Space Mountain. The sign says there is a 45 minute wait. PHOTO BY SEAN BROWN/ORLANDO SENTINEL. 12/31/1990.

The Magic Kingdom’s Space Mountain ride ended up with two tracks instead of four, both of them indoors. The Florida version of the ride was essentially Disneyland’s Matterhorn track layout ...