The next time you are at the Kennedy Space Center, be sure to hop on the Shuttle Launch Experience, a new thrill ride that simulates what astronauts go through when being shot into space.
To get the sensations, sights and sounds absolutely accurate, creators spent three years interviewing more than two dozen shuttle astronauts, who weighed in on everything from the whitish-yellow debris that spatters across the shuttle's windshield when the rocket boosters separate to the creaking of the cabin and other ambient sounds astronauts hear during a launch.
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