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8/29/2002 - Space Mountain (Disneyland)

During a routine Cascade Ride Stop one rocket (#8) blew through the brake zones at the final sections of the ride. Another rocket had been brought to a stop just past the "Re-entry Tunnel" before the station, and the out of control rocket slammed into the back of the stopped rocket. Basically a rocket rear-ended another rocket just before the station. Four Guests were taken to the hospital, and later released. The incident happened on Thursday afternoon, and the attraction has been closed ever since. The word we are getting from our managers is that Space will likely remain closed for the entire weekend, and possibly for the rest of next week as well. We are supposed to tell Guests that it is closed for an "unscheduled refurbishment", which isn't exactly untrue since they are now working intensely on the attraction to try and figure out what could have gone so horribly wrong to allow a rocket to careen through brake zones and slam into the back of another rocket.

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The ride was closed the whole time I was there (until September 7, at least). I wondered why, we wanted to ride it! I guess we were lucky!.

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