In perhaps an unintended degree of verisimilitude to the actual shuttle launch experience, a lot of the time on the Shuttle Launch Experience ride is spent waiting. As you wait on the gantry, monitors show a video where former astronauts describe what it was like for them to fly on the shuttle.
The galaxy we live in, called the Milky Way Galaxy, is a barred spiral galaxy composed of at least 100 billion stars. It is approximately 100,000 light years across and about 1000 light years thick. It has a central bulge that is about 10,000 light years in diameter.
The most famous galaxies are: Milky Way Galaxy: The galaxy where our â¦ Solar System resides. Andromeda Galaxy: Our nearest large galaxy. Large Magellanic Cloud: Brightest patch of nebulosity in the sky. Canis Major Dwarf: Our nearest galaxy at 0.025 Mly Others are named for their shape.he Earth is inside the Milky Way Galaxy. The closest other known galaxies are the two clouds of Magellan, which are small galaxies that orbit the Milky way. The closest oth â¦ er large galaxy, about the size of the Milky Way, is the Andromeda Galaxy. Andromeda is the nearest galaxy to Earth.