Walt Disney World has announced that Spaceship Earth will be temporarily closing for refurbishment later this summer.

Walt Disney Imagineering filed a permit for construction at Spaceship Earth, which closes for refurbishment in August.

Earth as our spaceship, uniquely designed to support life. Like a finely tuned machine, it requires us to account for every detail in how we convert energy from one form to another.

Space on Earth. Interestingly, technologies developed for use in space can also help on Earth. A classic example is solar panels. Invented back in 1954, during the era of coal-fired power stations ...