A very good ridefilm from DreamQuest Images, though perhaps not in the best possible venue. This film deserves to be seen in a nice cabin simulator somewhere... if anyone ever decides to do that, I'm ready to program it again!

Watch for: the site of the first moon landing preserved as a historical landmark just outside "Armstrong City".

Blatant product placement is seen as you pass a satellite with an HBO label on it. (At the time, Time Warner owned both HBO and Six Flags - though I doubt HBO ever had its own satellite.)

In the Launch Control queue area, several monitors showed "security-cam" views of the fictional facility you were supposedly touring. The video was created in one day by yours truly - I shot some Hi-8 camcorder footage of workmen assembling the Shuttle mockup that stands outside simulator building, and intercut it with NASA cable TV broadcasts.

Also in Launch Control - a map of the Earth proved the Prime Meridian passes though the mid-Atlantic and not through Greenwich, England as you may have thought. This change might not have been very scientific, but it hid a seam in the Plexiglas.

Trivia:
No, that wasn't a real shuttle outside the building - it was a hollow fiberglass shell.

Many of the sound effects in the film were created during one late night in the Great America machine shop. For example, the sound of asteroid impacts are actually filtered MIDI samples of scrap metal being tossed into a garbage bin.

Videos:
Space Shuttle America appears on the SIGGRAPH Video Review #99 tape, available by mail order.