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“We astronauts are right here at the moment to salute all those that made our journey into house attainable. They’ve permitted us to see the Earth as a valuable blue jewel within the blackness of house. Now all of us might get pleasure from this sense of marvel due to Walt Disney.”
With these phrases 50 years in the past at the moment (Jan. 15), Apollo 15 moonwalker Jim Irwin opened Area Mountain at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in Florida. Later to be reproduced at different Disney theme parks, this was the unique — the primary curler coaster supposed to present the general public the identical feeling that solely astronauts had skilled up till then.
“Blast off on a rip-roaring rocket into the furthest reaches of outer house on this roller-coaster experience in the dead of night,” reads the present description of Area Mountain on the Walt Disney World Resort web site.
In 1975, nevertheless, the very concept for such a experience preceded the existence of the know-how wanted to construct it. First proposed by Disney and sketched out by Imagineer John Hench in 1964, building on Area Mountain didn’t start till Dec. 15, 1972, simply because the final Apollo astronauts to stroll on the moon have been on their approach again to Earth. It was additionally six years after the demise of Walt Disney.
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