Former Ride // updated 1993.10.04
Tomorrowland · Magic Kingdom · Walt Disney World
Former Ride · the memorial record
Also known as Flight to the Moon.
This ride is gone, but its history stays documented — the full lifetime log is below.
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Mission to Mars closed permanently after more than 18 years; the Tomorrowland theater was later reworked into The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, which opened June 20, 1995.
Aerospace firm McDonnell Douglas took on sponsorship of the attraction, the only time Mission to Mars carried a sponsor at Walt Disney World; its logo lingered on the building facade after the deal ended.
The in-flight 'Mad Martian Myths' segment depicting fanciful Martian lifeforms was dropped after NASA's Viking probes transmitted images of a barren Martian surface.
Mission to Mars opened in Tomorrowland, a NASA-cooperative reskin of Flight to the Moon that swapped the lunar destination for a simulated round-trip voyage to the red planet.
Per the documented record, Mission to Mars at Magic Kingdom opened on Jun 7, 1975.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for Mission to Mars is dated Oct 4, 1993: Mission to Mars closed permanently after more than 18 years; the Tomorrowland theater was later reworked into The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, which opened June 20, 1995.
The latest documented change (documented Oct 4, 1993): Mission to Mars closed permanently after more than 18 years; the Tomorrowland theater was later reworked into The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, which opened June 20, 1995.
4 documented changes, dating back to 1975 — the fan-kept ride changelog nobody else keeps.
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