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.
Our particular galaxy is known as the Milky Way. Scientists estimate that there are 200 billion to 400 billion â yes, that's billion with a âb â stars in the Milky Way galaxy. The Sun is just one of those 200 billion to 400 billion stars. If that blows your mind, just wait! Our Milky Way galaxy is just one of the many galaxies in our universe.