literally anyone: "we should go ride mission space!"

my honest reaction:

I’m in EPCOT at Disney World today and look who I found on the Mission Space Ride! Rudy was our Lieutenant for the mission.

Rockets hot, vaqueros!

Losers from Round 1 Disney Parks Attractions Tournament Lightning round 4

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Mission Space: WDW Epcot

sollux's face on mission space at disney world

Buzz Lightyear topiary in front of Mission Space

Wall-E and EVE

When Mission: SPACE was updated in 2017, Gary Senise’s role as Capcom was replaced by Gina Torres. As a reference to Gary Senise’s role in Forrest Gump, the new booster seats read “WE(c) MISS mv 0060” “(03)LT.D4N(17)”, which can be interpreted as “We miss Lieutenant Dan”!

Wonderful Things That May or May Not Be Wonderful!!! This post is going to be a bit different when it comes to the attractions of Walt Disney World for this particular one is an experience that you can now only experience through recordings. Horizons, a ride that opened up in Epcot in 1983, was created as a successor to the previously blogged about Carousel of Progress. While their central themes about human advancement and optimism for the future are the same, how those themes are/were told and their focus within those themes are definitely different. In the case of conveyance, Horizons used…well, a conveyer belt. Specifically, the Omni-Mover system which is also seen in rides like the Haunted Mansion and Spaceship Earth which allowed for a constant flow of riders. As for the subject, While CoP is a trip through several decades looking at the past and future of electric appliances, Horizons really focused on the concept of "the future" itself. The first half had several show scenes that showed how people in the past saw the future from the steampunk stylings of Jules Verne to the Jetsons-esque musings of the 1950's. The second half shows off several domiciles showcasing tech of tomorrow including one that's underwater and one in space. And speaking of tomorrow's tech, this attraction itself included a few future innovations of its own including an OMNIMAX Dome screen and multiple endings that are chosen collectively by the riders. From the footage I've seen, this was truly a spectacular attraction. I truly wish I could have seen it in person although if it was still around, it is extremely likely that it would have become severely dated (like the CoP, Tomorrowland, and Epcot itself at certain points). After all, the future is always changing but here's hoping that the future, just like Horizons and the future it saw, is wonderful as well. P.S. Horizons shut down in 1999 and in its place is Mission Space. For the record, I would take Horizons over Mission Space especially a Mission Space after Disney changed Green Team. I'm still salty about that. P.P.S. Fun fact: Another thing that Horizons and Carousel of Progress shared was a sponsor. Both were sponsored by General Electric in fact. P.P.P.S. Instead of a photo, I'm going to put a link to a video showing one person's ride on the attraction in question so you can "ride" it yourself. No interactive endings though. The future may be variable but the past is set in stone…unless someone invents time travel in the future but in that case, how would we know time travel has even occurred? Hmmm, should I invent time travel so I can ride defunct theme park attractions? Reckless or warranted? Anyway, here's the link.

Gary Sinise Reprising His Role In A Film Adaption Of Much Maligned Disney Parks Attraction Mission Space, Which Is Reported To Be Theatres First 4-D Film Where Audiences Feel 2.5 G's On Their Chest

Mission Space is an infamous attraction at Epcot in Walt Disney World that reportedly makes five to six people throw up a day. Filmmakers for years have been experimenting on how to bring this joy to theaters around the world. They might have just found their answer with director James Cameron, who is always pushing the envelope. He has decided to take a brief pause between Avatar movies to direct a film adaption of the Disney Parks ride and create a 4-D experience where the audiences feel 2.5 G’s on their chests.

Disney Parks purists will be delighted to know that Cameron has decided to cast Gary Sinise in the lead role as Capcom. He used to play the Capcom on the ride until 2018 when he was replaced by Gina Torres. Sinise was so excited to bring the role back to life and see this new technology come to life.

“I’m very excited to be reprising one of my most overlooked but overseen roles of all time. I’ve heard that each ticket comes with a pair of 3-D glasses and a space sickness bag. We truly are advancing the film medium!” Sinise exclaims.

Will you have the stomach to see this film, or does cinemas last 4-D film Spy Kids 4 turn you off from the idea? Let us know in the comments!

I feel like nobody on Tumblr knows that the international space station is being discontinued.

Did you know that? In less than a decade it will be gone

CNN Link from above screenshot

More detailed article by Space.com

The DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) just successfully slammed into Dimorphos, which is the moonlet of the asteroid Didymos (also affectionately called Didymoon). Over the next few days astronomers around the world will observe Didymos and Dimorphos to see if there has been a change in orbit from the latter. This is humanity's first real attempt at altering the course of a "killer" asteroid, even if this one isn't hazardous to us.

Favorite Disney Parks Attraction Showdown: Round 1 - Group D2

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Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway: WDW Hollywood Studios, Disneyland

Mission Space: WDW Epcot

Moon Mountain Named After Melba Roy Mouton, NASA Mathematician

Award-winning NASA mathematician and computer programmer Melba Mouton is being honored with the naming of a mountain at the Moon’s South Pole. Mouton joined NASA in 1959, just a year after the space agency was established. She was the leader of a team that coded computer programs to calculate spacecraft trajectories and locations. Her contributions were instrumental to landing the first humans on the Moon.

She also led the group of "human computers," who tracked the Echo satellites. Roy and her team's computations helped produce the orbital element timetables by which millions could view the satellite from Earth as it passed overhead.

The towering lunar landmark now known as “Mons Mouton” stands at a height greater than 19,000 feet. The mountain was created over billions of years by lunar impacts. Huge craters lie around its base—some with cliff-like edges that descend into areas of permanent darkness. Mons Mouton is the future landing site of VIPER, our first robotic Moon rover. The rover will explore the Moon’s surface to help gain a better understanding of the origin of lunar water. Here are things to know:

Mons Mouton is a wide, relatively flat-topped mountain that stretches roughly 2,700 square miles

The mountain is the highest spot at the Moon’s South Pole and can be seen from Earth with a telescope

Our VIPER Moon rover will explore Mons Mouton over the course of its 100-day mission

VIPER will map potential resources which will help inform future landing sites under our Artemis program

The VIPER mission is managed by our Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The approximately 1,000-pound rover will be delivered to the Moon by a commercial vendor as part of our Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, delivering science and technology payloads to and near the Moon.

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in a mood (ID in alt)

I think sonic had a really good time not being playable for once and just being supporting cast for his friend shadow. i just know he was soooo excited to explain the controls and not worry about rings and cheer on his friend (and sometimes be a final boss :3)