Walt Disney wanted to build Space Mountain at Disneyland a decade before the indoor roller coaster forever altered the ...

Space Mountain in Walt Disney World celebrates 50 years of operation. Initially opening on January 15, 1975, Space Mountain, ...

A cultural touchstone, the dark ride opened to the public on Jan. 15, 1975, three years and three months after the Magic ...

The ride today bears little resemblance to actual spaceflight. But in the 50 years Space Mountain has been running, there ...

• Jan. 15, 1975: Space Mountain opened at a cost of $15 million, the Sentinel reported, “an amount more than the whole cost ...

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. "We astronauts are ...

Disney’s Magic Kingdom theme park will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Space Mountain on Wednesday, Jan. 15. Disneyland will celebrate the golden anniversary of its own version of Space ...

The Stoke-on-Trent park's famous ride - first opened in March 1994 - tops a ranking produced by a survey of 2,000 people who ...

(Orlando Sentinel file) Space Mountain’s roots are in the 1960s. Walt Disney wanted to add a space-themed ride to his Disneyland, building on the success of the California theme park’s ...

Today is a special day to celebrate and contemplate this wave, as Space Mountain is celebrating a major milestone. Amid that, though, I must politely reiterate a bone I have to pick with this ...