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.
milky way: The spiral-shaped galaxy in which our solar system, Sun and planet reside. History of our galaxy's name: Before telescopes, the night sky stars looked like a blurry white streak across the sky. An ancient Greek myth called it a river of milk.. The ancient Romans called it a road made of milk..