Iconic Mount Sanitas, one of Boulder’s most distinctive and popular natural landmarks for hikers and trail runners, will ...

Space Mountain is known for hurtling guests through the dark, like rockets shooting through space. It was the first coaster experience to be fully enclosed and in the dark, according to Vagnini.

The ride today bears little resemblance to actual spaceflight. But in the 50 years Space Mountain has been running, there have been and still are several nods to NASA.

Space Mountain Demolition and Construction Tokyo Disneyland’s original Space Mountain — which opened with the park in 1983 — closed permanently in July of last year.

SPACE MOUNTAIN WAS THE WORLD'S FIRST COMPUTER-CONTROLLED COASTER. Imagineers used computers to create the path of each track, making the ride feel as much like flight as possible.

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 ...

Opened on Jan. 15, 1975, Space Mountain was launched in the Magic Kingdom’s Tomorrowland with a network musical variety special that you can still see on YouTube hosted by Lucie Arnaz and ...

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.

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.

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 ...