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 ...

or Space Mountain. • May 1972: Executive vice president Dick Nunis announces expansion plans at a Florida Press Association luncheon at the Contemporary Hotel. They include Pirates of the ...

Early concept art of Space Mountain created by Disney Legend John Hench. (Courtesy of Disney) Initial plans for Space Mountain by Walt Disney and his Imagineers in the early 1960s conceived of a s ...