Baltimore Gun Club

The Baltimore Gun Club is a fictional organization affiliated with Discoveryland and Space Mountain.
== History ==
=== Background ===
The Baltimore Gun Club was an American society based out of Baltimore, Maryland which was dedicated to firearm design. At some point following the American Civil War, the club's president Colonel Impey Barbicane oversaw the construction of The Columbiad Cannon, a cannon intended to achieve space travel in the 19th century.
The Columbiad Cannon worked by firing space-craft with humans inside out of Earth's atmosphere. To note was the cannon which they had built in the structure which became known as, "Space Mountain" where they held public-access space travel excursions at the 1899 Worlds Fair. They would also obtain two notable devices which assisted in their space operations. Of note there was the Electro-de-Velocitor which allowed for the bullet-like spacecrafts of Space Mountain to return to Earth and Bluemoon Mining Machine which was used by Impey for asteroid mining.
=== Development History ===
The Baltimore Gun Club originates from Jules Verne's 1865 novel De la Terre à la Lune as the creators of his speculative space-craft. In the novel they build the Columbiad in Tampa Town, Florida with Barbicane being partly motivated to oversee the construction of the spacecraft due to a bet with his rival Captain Nicholl of Philadelphia, a plate-armour manufacturer.
== Appearances ==
=== Space Mountain (Disneyland Paris) ===
The queue and exterior of the original Space Mountain in the Discoveryland area of Disneyland Paris was themed around the Baltimore Gun Club. The club's name is even found on the side of the Columbiad cannon and above the stairs leading to the Loading Station. The Victorian interior of the queue is themed around a lounge owned by the gun-club with their designs for the Columbiad being visible. On the ride itself, references to club-owner Colonel Impey when passing by his mining machine.
Even following the re-theming of the attraction away from its original incarnation, references to the Gun Club remain in the building and queue.
== Trivia ==
* The club's slogan, "Ad Luna in Flamma Gloria" is roughly Latin for, "To the Moon in a blaze of glory".
== Gallery ==
Discovery Mountain Cannon Concept.jpg|Concept art of the Columbiad showing the club's name on the side
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