Fly High With The Shuttle Launch Simulator
In just a few hours, the Kennedy Space Center will be opening their new attraction to the public. The Shuttle Launch Experience is a 44,000 square foot shuttle launch simulator/amusement ride. The $60 million project was designed to replicate the 17,500 mph liftoff of a NASA shuttle orbiter.
The simulator’s 13 channel sound system will be pumping out the engine’s sounds and even the voice of the shuttle commander as he shouts out his instructions to the crew. Each seat has an airbag that will rise and sink to simulate rapid acceleration. The seats will also shake and rumble during specific events like the engine’s startup, the firing of the solid rocket boosters, and their separation. The shuttle’s windshield is an 84 inch high definition screen.
The Shuttle Launch Experience was created by BRC Imagination Arts. Bob Rogers, CEO of BRC Imagination Arts stated:
“We take the technology and pizazz of theme parks, Broadway and Hollywood and put those things in the framework of education.”
That is definitely one amusement ride I’d like to try out 
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May 26th, 2007 05:39
Wow, very cool….wouldn’t mind venturing down to Florida for something like this again.
May 26th, 2007 07:29
I hope they set aside a little bit of that 60 million for barf bags
Sure would love to give it a try though. The ride that is, not the barf bags 
May 26th, 2007 13:28
@listikal:
Let me know if you do check it out. So I can write about it here
@Mike:
Might not have an appetite after that ride .. or maybe the opposite
May 26th, 2007 16:47
I hope it doesn’t end up actually taking off like in the movie ‘Space Camp’!
Hey, it could happen
- Martin Reed
May 26th, 2007 18:26
@Martin:
Hehe that’s what one of my kids said when I told him about it