{"id":201897,"date":"2026-03-23T01:39:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201897\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T01:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:39:54","slug":"epcots-spaceship-earth-experiences-extended-unplanned-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201897\/","title":{"rendered":"EPCOT&#8217;s Spaceship Earth Experiences Extended Unplanned Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spaceship Earth has not operated at EPCOT since Friday, and the closure is stretching into a second day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdwmagic.com\/attractions\/spaceship-earth\/gallery\/17dec2020-spaceship-earth-overview\/40197.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 2560\/1710;\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1710\" data-twic-src=\"https:\/\/www.wdwmagic.com\/attractions\/spaceship-earth\/news\/image:\/ElementGalleryItems\/attractions\/Fullsize\/Spaceship-Earth_Full_40197.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wdwmagic.twic.pics\/ElementGalleryItems\/attractions\/Fullsize\/Spaceship-Earth_Full_40197.jpg?twic=v1\/output=preview\" title=\"Spaceship Earth overview\" alt=\"Spaceship Earth overview\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The attraction did not operate at all on Saturday, March 21, and remains closed as of Sunday morning. As of 11:30am, My Disney Experience still lists Spaceship Earth as unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>The exterior lighting on the park&#8217;s icon was also dark Saturday night, which could point to a power issue, or something impacting all the control systems.<\/p>\n<p>Disney has not announced a scheduled refurbishment, and the attraction continues to show standard operating hours in the app &#8211; meaning this appears to be an unplanned closure rather than a planned maintenance window.<\/p>\n<p>Spaceship Earth only returned from a nearly three-month refurbishment in October 2025 &#8211; a closure that began August 25 and focused on ride system and infrastructure work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdwmagic.com\/attractions\/spaceship-earth\/gallery\/08oct2020-spaceship-earth-show-scenes---october-2020\/39307.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 2560\/1710;\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1710\" data-twic-src=\"https:\/\/www.wdwmagic.com\/attractions\/spaceship-earth\/news\/image:\/ElementGalleryItems\/attractions\/Fullsize\/Spaceship-Earth_Full_39307.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wdwmagic.twic.pics\/ElementGalleryItems\/attractions\/Fullsize\/Spaceship-Earth_Full_39307.jpg?twic=v1\/output=preview\" title=\"Spaceship Earth show scenes - October 2020\" alt=\"Spaceship Earth show scenes - October 2020\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>No information has been released on the cause of this weekend&#8217;s downtime or an expected return date.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re heading to EPCOT this weekend with Spaceship Earth on your list, it&#8217;s worth checking My Disney Experience before you go.<\/p>\n<p>                         Get Walt Disney World News Delivered to Your Inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spaceship Earth has not operated at EPCOT since Friday, and the closure is stretching into a second day.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47217,93081,115,139,141,140,93082],"class_list":["post-201897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-epcot","tag-epcots-spaceship-earth-experiences-extended-unplanned-closure","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-world-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}