Experience Nasa’s space shuttle launch

Imagine being a crew member on Shuttle Launch mission headed to explorer a strange new planet. For guests familiar with Epcot’s Mission to Mars simulator, NASA’s Launch Experience which costed $60 million, creates an actual launch that astronauts would experience on a real space mission. After the Launch Experience, guests truly get an understanding of how tough a business it is to get a vehicle into space.

The Launch Experience is existential inasmuch as passengers are strapped in, they hear the actual countdown, the seat is titled to view a sky projection on a windshield and they feel the vibration of solid rocket boosters igniting. From launch to orbit, the passengers experience real G-Force of Mach 1 pulling on them re-creating the actual experience of the pilots.

In order to create such a wonder, NASA enlisted the help of Challenger’s astronaut Story Musgrave with the support of Rick Searfoss from Columbia. This is by far the best reality experience yet, that is why NASA is not calling it a attraction but an actual “Launch Experience.”