ORLANDO, Fla. — Space Mountain, the roller coaster that launched Walt Disney World into a new era, turns 50 years old this month. The ride, a key part of Magic Kingdom’s first major expansion ...

CENTRAL FLORIDA HAS NO SHORTAGE OF THRILL RIDES. ROLLER COASTERS ARE NO EXCEPTION. We have more than 50 roller coasters here, ...

Disneyland plans to close Space Mountain during the middle of the busy summer vacation season to overhaul the 1977 indoor roller coaster that takes riders on a high-speed journey through the dark ...

Florida isn’t just sunshine and beaches,it’s the thrill capital of the world. In this video, we count down the top 10 roller coasters in Florida that every adrenaline junkie must experience. From ...

Walt Disney wanted to build Space Mountain at Disneyland a decade before the indoor roller coaster forever altered the skyline of the Magic Kingdom a few years after the debut of the Florida theme ...

Oldest 1. Space Mountain, Magic Kingdom, opening in 1975 2. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Magic Kingdom, 1980 3. Barnstormer, Magic Kingdom, 1996 ...

It's like Space Mountain, but with a real-life space mission. NASA is borrowing from local theme park knowledge to keep its Artemis astronauts safe during moon launches from Florida. Teams with ...

Initial plans for Space Mountain by Walt Disney and his Imagineers in the early 1960s conceived of a spaceport in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland with four separate roller coaster tracks weaving ...