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Environmental Tectonics sued Disney in 2003 seeking over $15 million US alleging failure to pay the full amount of the contract and sharing proprietary design details with competitors. The simulator hardware used in Mission: Space was designed and built by Environmental Tectonics Corporation of Pennsylvania with a nearly $30 million contract awarded in February 2000. Hewlett-Packard assumed the sponsorship upon its merger with Compaq in 2002. Mission: Space was sponsored by Compaq, which began working with Disney Imagineers on the design in April 2000. The pavilion, like others at Epcot, used to feature a VIP lounge for HP employees called The Red Planet Room. Industry estimates put the cost of developing the new attraction at US$100 million. Horizons closed permanently in 1999 after a few years of sporadic operation construction began on Mission: Space shortly thereafter. The attraction was built on the former site of Horizons, a dark ride that offered optimistic visions of what life might be like in the future.
The attraction opened to the public in a "soft opening" mode in June 2003, and celebrated its grand opening on October 9 with a ceremony attended by Disney CEO Michael Eisner, HP CEO Carly Fiorina and NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, as well as several NASA astronauts from its many phases of human space exploration ( Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, the Space Shuttle program and two crew members aboard the International Space Station). The pavilion also includes the Mission Space: Cargo Bay gift shop, the Advanced Training Lab interactive play area and Space 220 Restaurant. The attraction simulates what an astronaut might experience aboard a spacecraft on a mission to Mars, from the higher g-force of liftoff, to the speculative hypersleep. Mission: Space (stylized as Mission: SPACE) is a space exploration-themed pavilion and attached centrifugal motion simulator attraction located in the World Discovery section of Epcot at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida.
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