Spaceship Earth is a dark ride attraction at the EPCOT theme park at the Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida.

Supported by and about three feet off the structural domes is a cladding sphere to which the shiny Alucobond panels and drainage system are mounted.

Extending upwards from the table are "quadropod" structures, which support smaller beams which form the shell of the steel skeleton.

A small service car is parked in the interstitial space between the structural and cladding surfaces, and it can carry a prone technician down the sides to access repair locations.

"[15] The opening day version of the attraction featured narration by actor Vic Perrin with a sparse, largely diegetic soundtrack.

This version featured a network operations center with a data map of the United States in the modern telecommunications section.

Debuting May 29, 1986, the second version of the attraction featured a new narration by news journalist Walter Cronkite, reading from an updated script.

Two new scenes were added before the network operations center, on the left side of the track, featuring a woman working in a “paperless office” and a boy at a computer in his bedroom.

The attraction's third version debuted on November 23, 1994 and featured an updated script narrated by Jeremy Irons and a new orchestral soundtrack, based upon Bach's Sinfonia No.

This version features a new narration by Judi Dench reading from a new script, a new musical score by Bruce Broughton and new costumes, lighting, projections, props and audio-animatronic figures.

On June 30, 2017, Siemens, a long-time sponsor, announced they would end their sponsorship of the attraction, as well as the firework show, IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth.

On July 5, 2007, Epcot Vice President Jim MacPhee announced that Spaceship Earth would be restored to its original appearance, and that the "magic wand" structure would be removed in time for the park's 25th anniversary on October 1, 2007.

It was rumored that Siemens AG, the new sponsor of Spaceship Earth, requested the wand be removed as it did not fit their corporate image.

[citation needed] The attraction was closed on July 9, 2007, and by October 1 the wand structure, the stars and their supports were gone, replaced by palm trees and other plants.

Guests are brought through a heated diorama of the Egyptians, who invented a system of portable communication using hieroglyphs recorded on papyrus, as opposed to cave paintings that were unable to be transported as humans migrated.

Turning a corner, riders see a lesson in mathematics being taught in a piazza in an ancient Greek city, in a sequence that attempts to show how math helped invent the 'birth of a high tech life we enjoy today.'

The fall of Rome by invading mercenary armies also brought the destruction of the bulk of the world's recorded knowledge, including the loss of scrolls at the Library of Alexandria.

But the narration gives hope as the vehicle reaches the next level, where Jewish and Islamic scholars of the Middle Ages are seen preserving recorded information, and continuing to progress in science.

The European Renaissance is portrayed, with animatronics of ensembles playing rich, polyphonic secular motets, sculpting a woman, and the painting of a portrait of fruit.

Seen next is a romanticized version of the 20th century communications revolution—after passing telegraphs, radio, telephones, and movies, riders see the 1969 television broadcast of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, featuring Walter Cronkite.

Riders hear Neil Armstrong say his most famous quote, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

Ascending to the top, guests pass through a 1970's garage in California, where an actual 1976 Chevrolet Vega GT[29] sits next to a young man[17] who is seen building one of the first home computers.

At a crescendo, the car makes its final turn into the cupola of Spaceship Earth and each ride vehicle pivots 90 degrees clockwise.

Before the omnimover vehicles start to move down the long descent to the unloading area, they rotate another 90 degrees clockwise and guests ride the end of the attraction backward, in a semi-reclining position.

The remainder of the ride moves through a tunnel of free-hanging LED string lights and mirrors to give the illusion of a seemingly infinite number of stars, and into a realm of glowing triangles.

The guests can then use the touchscreens in their Omnimover vehicle to answer questions about preferences to create a possible depiction of their future, which uses the pictures taken at the beginning of the ride.

At the end of the descent, the omnimover vehicles rotate 180 degrees counterclockwise to face forward just before entering the offload station.

Siemens AG, the newest sponsor of Spaceship Earth, having signed on in 2005, created a new exhibit space called Project Tomorrow: Inventing the Wonders of the Future.

Project Tomorrow current attractions are: A VIP lounge, operated by the pavilion sponsor, exists above the post-show area of Spaceship Earth.

[citation needed] The layout is small and curved in shape, with one wall consisting of large windows where visitors can look out onto the park.