# Design and Manufacturing: Environmental Tectonics Corporation
# Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard
# Show Length: 5:38
# Height Requirement: 44"
# G-Force: 2g
# Ride System: Interactive centrifuge
# Number of Centrifuges: 4
# Centrifuge theme: Spacecraft cockpit
# Capsules per Centrifuge: 10
# Riders per Capsule: 4
# Capacity: 1,600 riders per hourMission: SPACE is a motion simulator thrill ride at Epcot, Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. It simulates what an astronaut might experience aboard a spacecraft on a mission to Mars, from the higher g-force of blastoff to the speculative hypersleep.The attraction opened to the public in a "soft opening" mode in June 2003, and celebrated its grand opening on October 9 with a ceremony attended by Disney CEO Michael Eisner, HP CEO Carly Fiorina and NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, as well as several NASA astronauts from its many phases of human space exploration (Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, the space shuttle program and two crew members aboard the International Space Station).Initially it was sponsored by Compaq, which began working with Disney Imagineers on the design in April 2000. Hewlett-Packard assumed the sponsorship upon its merger with Compaq in 2002. The simulator hardware used in Mission: SPACE was designed and built by Environmental Tectonics Corporation of Pennsylvania.Mission: SPACE was built on the former site of Horizons, a dark ride that offered optimistic visions of what life might be like in the future. Horizons closed permanently in 1999 after a few years of sporadic operation; construction began on Mission: SPACE shortly thereafter. Industry estimates put the cost of developing the new attraction at US$100 million.
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