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.
There are an estimated 100-300 billion galaxies in the observable universe. The number of stars in a galaxy depends on its size. The Milky Way Galaxy has between 200 and 400 billion stars. Dwarf galaxies may contain as few as 10 million stars, while the largest galaxies consist of more than a trillion. This is usually due to the merging of smaller galaxies into one big galaxy.