First off, please forgive me if I’m incoherent, but I just finished driving back to Dallas from Disney World, and I’m rather tired.
I was at Epcot Monday morning. Like others have said, planters blocked all the paths to Mission Space, although there were no cast members near the planters. (If there had been, I would have done some serious begging). I did see three people sitting in the courtyard (all wearing red shirts), and occasionally I saw cast members dressed in the standard Epcot costume enter and leave the building. I would have watched longer, but my wife and kids wanted to do something other than stare at the outside of a building.
I have some pictures, but I don’t know when I might get the chance to post them. This was a completely unplanned trip, so now I have to catch up on all those things I was supposed to do while I was gone.