Fun Find Friday
October 21, 2016
Location: Future World East, Epcot
I feel like most people, myself included, pass up
Mission: SPACE on a regular basis. While the attraction has never
been my personal favorite, I have always appreciated the details
found throughout the queue and exterior portion of the attraction.
Today we are going to be talking about the massive moon found in the
courtyard of the attraction:

Notice those small little circles scattered around
the moon? It's a detail most people don't pay much attention to, but
they really should. The giant model of the moon is an actual replica
of the moon, just in a much smaller scale of course. The small dots
scattered throughout the model represent the 29 rockets that the
United States and the Soviet Union launched to the moon between 1959
and 1976. The white circles represent where unmanned missions
landed, the blue represent where manned missions landed, while the
lone red circle represents where Apollo 11 landed, marking the first
time men walked on the moon:

So next time you are in the area, make sure to stop
by and take a look at the details of each circle. As you can see
below, you can learn which country each dot represents along with
the spaceship that landed along with the date of the landing:

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