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 Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, or NGC 224 is a large barred spiral galaxy (type Sb), the nearest of such to the Milky Way, and situated within the same galactic cluster called the Local Group. It appears to be within the constellation Andromeda, hence its name.