Walt Disney has always been fascinated with Space, but did you know that Walt actually helped the U.S. Military imagine the reality of space travel?
Walt expressed his love of space through a three-part TV series from 1955-1957: Man in Space, Man and the Moon and Mars and Beyond.
His research for the science related shows led him to spending time with German scientist Wernher Von Braun, the man who created the first rocket at the commission of his government. After World War II Von Braun began working with the Americans to develop space travel, but it was Walt who was able to sell the excitement and real possibility of space travel to the American people.
In 1965, at the request of Von Braun, Walt went to Alabama to the Marshall Space Flight Center and met with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. President Eisenhower encouraged Walt to help promote the idea of space travel and honored his ideas in "science fiction" that ended up becoming science fact!
"A vista into a world of wondrous ideas, signifying man's achievements .... A step into the future with
predictions of constructive things to come. Tomorrow offers new frontiers in science, adventure, and ideals,
the atomic age, the challenge of outer space and the hope for a peaceful and unified world."
-Walt Disney's Tomorrowland Dedication Speech
On a momentous occasion for all American's many joined together on the afternoon of July 20, 1969 and watched the Apollo 11 Moon landing on the Tomorrowland Stage in Disneyland, just steps from an attraction called Flight to the Moon. 
Walt's Spirit of adventure and exploration continues in the hearts of all of us who keep his dream and magic alive. In his own words Walt expressed it best-
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