A Disney icon turns 50 years old on Wednesday. Space Mountain debuted at Walt Disney World on Jan. 15, 1975. “Like many great ideas, it came from the imagination of Walt Disney,” Steven Vagnini, ...

Space Mountain has gone from an idea by Walt Disney for California to becoming the oldest coaster in Florida. Here are attraction highlights from five decades using Orlando Sentinel clips and other ...

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 ...

“Like many great ideas, it came from the imagination of Walt Disney,” Steven Vagnini, content strategy manager for Walt Disney Archives, told USA TODAY. “Walt first had the idea for a high-speed trip ...