By 1975, it had been three years since astronauts had walked on the moon, and the Flight to the Moon attraction, which opened at Disneyland in 1955, needed a more distant itinerary. Mission to Mars opened that year in the place of Flight to the Moon, with the Audio-Animatronics® figure of Mr. Johnson serving as host. Each of his lectures was interrupted by the bleating of an alarm caused by the crash landing of a large bird near the spacecraft launch pad (the footage was taken from a True-Life Adventure film).
