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

A RIDE at Alton Towers has been named as the best in the world according to Brits - beating ones at Disney ... Florida's Space Mountain and Universal's Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ...

When the ride opened on Jan. 15, 1975, an Apollo moonwalker was its first passenger, NASA's insignia was on display and 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 ...

Space Mountain ... a Disney World spokesman. • May 25, 1975: Sentinel reported that PeopleMover will run through Space Mountain “later this summer.” • July 1976: Python, a roller coaster ...

The original Space Mountain, which opened at Walt Disney World in 1975, was the first fully-enclosed, dark roller coaster and the first to be controlled by a computer. The iconic, conical Space ...

Note: This story first published in 2015, for the ride’s 40th anniversary. Compared to today’s mega thrill rides, Walt Disney World’s Space Mountain is a simple spin. No upside-down loops. No 3D ...

But here are our current roller coasters, including the under-refurbishment Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Magic ... and other parts of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

(Walt Disney World) Blasting off from Tomorrowland at Magic Kingdom Park, Space Mountain goes gold for the 50th anniversary of this rip-roaring roller-coaster ride in the dark. Mickey Mouse and ...