[4] The technology of Rocket to the Moon was reminiscent of the Hale’s Tours of the World amusement park rides, made to simulate travel by train.
[citation needed] The show was designed in cooperation with NASA and was basically a revised and updated version of the previous attraction Flight to the Moon.
"Third Officer Collins", voiced by Peter Renaday,[8][9] was the tour guide, and discussed the mission as the spacecraft explored space and Mars.
One reason behind the closure was that the controversial attraction ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter was to open in the building as part of CEO Michael Eisner's ambitious "Disney Decade".
Along with Alien Encounter, The Timekeeper and "Plectu's Fantastic Galactic Revue" would have opened in the radical and richly detailed "Tomorrowland 2055" concept.
Start of construction on Disneyland's New Tomorrowland was changed from Fall 1994 to Spring 1997, but Alien Encounter, The Timekeeper, and Plectu's Fantastic Galactic Revue never opened.
[11] The building remained unused until it officially reopened as a restaurant, Redd Rockett's Pizza Port in Disneyland's New Tomorrowland on May 22, 1998.
[citation needed] Mission to Mars closed its doors at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World, Florida on October 4, 1993.