Imagine it, you are zipping through space, until your... well... not. The music is still playing the lights are still off but the rocket you are riding in seems to be out of fuel. The other people in the ride vehicle with you are slightly scared... okay they were freaking out and asking my family if we would call 9-1-1 (Don't laugh... okay do it was hilarious).
Anyways 5 minutes pass and you have yet to move. That happy little voice has been over the intercom instructing you to stay inside of the ride vehicle. Twice. 10 minutes pass. Then 15. Then bright lights fill the space. The lights have been turned on inside the mountain!
At this point I was in Disney awe thinking how unique and amazing this experience was. I kind of had to laugh though. The ground was relatively clean minus what seemed to be like a bazillion hair scrunchies. Finally a cast member came about and instructed us to remain seated. He left for a few more minutes while I gawked at the metal skeleton of Space Mountain.
Lets just say this: Give Imagineers props because they can fit alot of track in such a relatively small building.
When the CM came back he announced that since we were at the top of the last hill they were going to push the ride vehicle down the hill and use momentum to propel us to the end of the ride. The CM did just that pushing our vehicle down the hill and through the last tunnel (the lights were pulsing neon lights were off but regular lights were on).
Now the funny part -other funny part- was that once we made it to the unloading dock the bars that keep you in place during the ride... didn't release. So for about ten more minutes we were stuck their waiting for them to figure out how to let us out of the vehicle. Needless to say when the restraint bars released everyone ran at top speed out of the building.