The Space Mountains in all other have proven to be incredibly popular from their beginning to even to this day, they're the most popular of all of our attractions. However this one is going to even be more popular because it goes faster, has more unique features [xxx], it has the onboard sound, the catapult launch, the ability to walk through the mountain - all of these elements are improvements, and improvements that we felt very very strongly about several years ago when we started designing this, because we knew that we had to get ready for the 21st century, and we had to create the greatest and latest technology.
Every 36 seconds we're gonna see this cannon recoil, with a big boom and smoke come out, and you'll see this train get fired of the side of the mountain.
After you've been launched you actually travel all through this space environment, then you'll go through what is called a loop or sidewinder, you actually come out of that, go flying through this asteroid field, and then one encounter this corkscrew that we go through, so go upside-down twice there, and then the final element is we go upside-down again just before the re-entry where we actually come into what is called a tongue, where the ride comes upside-down and then goes flying into the re-entry scene.
Well the inspiration actually came from the story of Jules Verne's "De la Terre à la Lune", "From the Earth to the Moon". And in that story a key part of that was that the journey to the moon actually started by launching a train from a cannon, this enormous cannon. And the key to that was it was like a whole new inspiration that has as to had a launch a vehicle from the earth to the moon.
They very clearly demonstrated how men could travel in the outer space to the moon and the last show is called "Mars and beyond".
The shows were so popular that after they had shown on the evening, sunday evening, the president Dwight Eisenhower showed it to his scientist and from that point it really launched his -- quite significally -- into the Men in Space program.
"It's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
The interesting thing about Jules Verne's inspiration in dreams and story telling was that he inspired an awful lot of other visionaries and writers to actually write about other journeys in the space. What Walt Disney does, he created the vision that actually launched the real space program. What Space Mountain is going to do is put the gas into an experience that they have never been in before.
Walt Disney was a visionary in his own right. In the mid-fifties he created three television shows, called "Men in Space" which actually portraied a contemporary version of a trip from the earth to the moon.
"One of the popular attraction here is our simulated rocket trip around the moon. After entering the Disneyland Space Port, visitors may experience the thrills that space travellers of the future will encounter when rocket trips to the moon become a daily routine. However scientists tell us that to be many years before space travels become the reality."