For this ride, you'll be put with three others to crew a rocket landing on Mars. Mission: SPACE reopened today after a couple of months of refurbishment and as part of the work done on the attraction, the less intense mission now takes guests across Earth.
Sites flown over include the Grand Canyon, San Francisco, Hawaii, Japan, Egypt, Italy, Greece, Paris, and more.
- See 329 traveler reviews, 61 candid photos, and great deals for Orlando, FL, at Tripadvisor. More intense astronauts will receive an orange ticket, and do the same. It simulates what an astronaut might experience aboard a spacecraft on a mission to Mars, from the higher g-force of liftoff to the speculative hypersleep. Its design to simulate an actual Space Shuttle lunch and I believe it hits the mark. the reason it spins is to simulate how gravity would be pinning you back in your seat if you were a real astronaut. the only difference between the intense and less intense versions is that on the intense one you spin. While both simulation videos are the same, the capsules perform relatively different maneuvers. Mission: SPACE: Intense!
Mission: SPACE reopened today after a couple of months of refurbishment and as part of the work done on the attraction, the less intense mission now takes guests across Earth.
It uses a high speed centrifuge to simulate G-forces and it gets pretty intense, even if you're used to thrill rides. Mission Space has a more intense training and less intense training mission.
Mission: SPACE is the most intense ride at Epcot (as the many warning signs will attest).
Mission: Space (stylized as Mission: SPACE) is a centrifugal motion simulator thrill ride at Epcot at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida.
As much as I really enjoy Mission:Space, it's not wild or particularly turbulent. Now I'm not claustrophobic but I did tense up a little when the doors closed. Mission Space was the very first attraction we went on as a family and in 2004 there was only the extreme version. If you know your fairground and carnival rides, it's analogous to the Gravitron. Sites flown over include the Grand Canyon, San Francisco, Hawaii, Japan, Egypt, Italy, Greece, Paris, and more. Don't let the "intense" misnomer throw you. Mission: SPACE originally opened in 2003 and was on a path to being the next E-Ticket attraction for all the Disney Parks with more intense thrills than any other Disney attraction to date. Like others have said... Mission Space is not really in the category of a roller coaster.
If you're not an experienced thrill seeker, definitely lean toward Green Team as it takes out all the spinning. IMO the "lift-off" is the most intense part of the ride.
As we walked through the attraction I kept pointing out the warnings but my wife said “Don’t be a baby!” As we tilted back and blasted off my son announced he was going to throw up.
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What you do experience are the mild G-forces generated by the centrifuges (i.e. it doesn't matter whether you go on the intense or less intense version mission space does NOT go upside down. We go on Orange said every time. Mission Space (Orange Team) is the most physically intense ride WDW has ever done.
Those who choose less intense will be handed a green boarding ticket to proceed to the flight bays. And don't let the word "spinning" thrown you either because you really don't get that kind of sensation.