Space Mountain in Disney’s Magic Kingdom Park celebrates its 50th anniversary Wednesday and the park is set to celebrate.

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

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

A thrill ride manufacturer that has designed a 1,000-foot-tall roller coaster that would shatter all height and speed records ...

Space Mountain was Disney World’s first coaster and is now the oldest roller coaster in operation in Florida. Disneyland finally got a Space Mountain in 1977, though it features one track in a ...