It's summertime, so it's likely someone in your personal sphere is visiting Walt Disney World. Maybe they're standing in front of the largest free-standing sphere in the world -- Spaceship Earth at EPCOT park. At 18 stories tall and 165 feet in diameter, this geodesic sphere has become the park's symbol as a center of innovation, international culture and human achievement. Opening on October 1, 1982, EPCOT was the culmination of a utopian vision Walt Disney had for a community of the future, built in the shape of a circle with buildings, transportation and neighborhoods laid out in a radial plan.

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