Epcot’s Spaceship Earth Attraction Closing for Extended Refurbishment. For guests visiting Epcot and wanting to “thank the Phoenicians”, you have until August 25th, 2025, when Spaceship Earth closes for a few months for what Disney is calling “routine refurbishment.” Walt Disney World has to make sure to use the word routine, or online Imagineers will think this is the retheme that Disney announced back in 2019, and then eventually shelved for the time being.
By the time Spaceship Earth goes down for refurbishment, Test Track will have reopened to the public on July 22, 2025.
The Walt Disney World website has updated the information on the Spaceship Earth page: Spaceship Earth will be temporarily closed for a routine refurbishment beginning August 25, 2025, and is planned to reopen later this year.
This will not affect the new adults-only lounge, GEO-82, that just recently opened up at World Discovery, inside Spaceship Earth. There will still be other ways of seeing Spaceship Earth. The nighttime Icon lights should still be shining every evening. There is also a new Spaceship Earth Mickey Balloon Popcorn Bucket for sale in Epcot, and during Festival of the Holidays, we may see the return of the Spaceship Gingerbread Earth in CommuniCore Hall.
Spaceship Earth: Geodesic globe attraction, the symbol of Epcot, opened on October 1, 1982. Sponsored by AT&T from 1982 to 2002. A new narration script with Walter Cronkite was added on May 29, 1986. The geosphere is 165 feet in diameter, standing 15 feet above the ground on six legs. In its more than two million cubic feet of space, guests ride upward in a journey that passes the highlights of communication history through the years from cavemen to the present and into the future.
At the very top of the sphere is a majestic star field. The show received major renovations in 1994, reopening on November 23. Jeremy Irons provided the narration, from concepts by Ray Bradbury and a host of advisers to the Disney designers. Siemens became the sponsor in 2005 until 2017. In December 2007, Spaceship Earth reopened after extensive renovations.
The storyline now follows the history of human innovation from prehistoric times to the 21st century, with new narration by Dame Judi Dench and a new musical score. The new finale enables guests to imagine their future through the use of touchscreen technology.
Epcot’s Spaceship Earth Attraction Closing for Extended Refurbishment
