This article was first released on MousePlanet.com on July 6, 2005, and is reprinted here with the kind permission of MousePlanet. After the success of Matterhorn Mountain, the first steel-pipe coaster, Walt Disney is said to have asked, “Why can’t we have a ‘space mountain’ ride?” So in the mid-1960s, Walt gave John Hench the assignment to design a space mountain. (This “odd” name wasn’t set until much later—it was called Space Venture for a period until a vote was taken among WED employees to choose between Space Mountain and other names that had been suggested. Bumper stickers with “Ski Space Mountain” abounded.) [...]
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| Title | |
|---|---|
| Source type | Book Series |
| Volume | 16 Chapter: 19 |
| Published | |
| Subject date | 2005 |
| Language | en |
| Document type | Feature |
| Media type | text |
| Page count | 11 |
| Pages | pp. 223-233 |
| Id | 1561 |
|---|---|
| Availability | Purchasable |
| Inserted | 2015-07-08 |
