Rocket Ship to the Moon Opens
July 22, 1955
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With the 60th Diamond Celebration of Disneyland quickly approaching, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at some of things from Disneyland's past. Today we're heading back to the original 1955 Tomorrowland. Many
years before spaceflight in the real world was a reality, it was a daily
occurrence in Disneyland. Rocket to the Moon launched park
guests to the moon beginning on July 22, 1955, which really made Tomorrowland a
land of the future! With screens above and below the theatre, acting almost as
windows, guests blasted off in a simulated ride to the moon, watching their
journey from its departure from Disneyland on the lower screen right up to the
moon on the upper screen. An iconic rocket, the Moonliner, stood outside,
towering over the attraction building. In 1966, the opening of an all new
Tomorrowland also brought a newly updated version of the attraction, now called Flight
to the Moon. By 1975, after astronauts actually set foot on the moon, the
updated attraction sent guests to explore the red planet in Mission to
Mars. The last Mars flight departed in November, 1992. Today, the location
is home to Redd Rockett’s Pizza Port, along with a scaled down replica of the
original Moonliner. Although the technology of Flight to the Moon and Mission
to Mars eventually became outdated, at the time, guests thought they
were simply out of this world! If you could update Tomorrowland, what would your vision include? Leave a comment below and tell us what you would create. And
that’s what happened today in Disneyland’s history.
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