Okay time to get in serious trouble again
SPOILER WARNING
The following is a quick, vague and brief rumor concerning the storyline to Mission: Space. This is a rumor only and is unverified (although it does agree with some other things Ive seen). If you dont want to know stop reading now. You have only yourselves to blame
According to the rumors during the simulator portion of the attraction you will be passengers in small training vehicle. Your little four person craft is boosted into space on the back of a much larger rocket I think there have been pictures of this already posted and a model is/was on display at the preview center.
You are launched into space and get the thrills of g-forces and the simulated weightlessness. Then, Something Goes Wrong. You are caught in a meteor shower (this is a Disney space ride after all). The ships start to take damage and your piloted booster rocket explodes. You have to make an emergency reentry in your own ship on your own.
Now this is where the rumors start to get mixed up. According to the rumors, one of the four guests in the cabin was supposed to pilot the craft back down to a landing. After the firery re-entry, the "pilot" would need to stear the spaceship to the landing strip using a joytsick and prompting from your on-board Compaq flight control computer (get the money you know). The cabin would react to what the pilot did and you feel like you were "flying". Hopefully everyone would make it back down safely. Basically, the Mission: Space cabins would become the training simulators that spawned the technology in the first place.
According to rumors, there were technical and budget problems with having each cabin independently controlled, and there was some concern about whether or not the guests would get it. There are rumors that the interactive element is now an abort button that needs to be pushed so your ejection capsule is blasted free. This little bit is mentioned on the ride system manufacturers web site as a potential story element for a potential ride but it does fit in nicely with the other M:S rumors.
Yet another rumor says that storyline has run into some resistance due to recent events. After 9/11, exploding ships and plummeting to earth in a plane have lost any kind of entertainment value and many people question whether its appropriate for an amusement park attraction. And NASA is none to pleased to hear about exploding space ships as well for the oblivious reasons.
Also note that the storyline works well for either the trip in space plot or the training center plot. Your flight could either suppose to be real or nothing but a training simulation. I suppose that your success or failure during the training mission could be judged on when you hit the abort button.