NASA is gearing up for a launch in a little over a week (June 8th) but now you can get the same experience (sort of) whenever you want. The Kennedy Space Center has just opened the Shuttle Launch Experience, a $60 million, 44,000-square-foot simulator that lets visitors experience the start of the main engines, the firing of the solid rocket boosters and their separation. The creators spent three years trying to capture every minute detail from ambient sounds to the creaking in the cabin and a few astronauts now claim that the new ride is even more accurate than training simulators currently being used by NASA. We can't wait to go.
(thanks space.com)
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