You are now beginning to feel the power of the vehicle as she begans to accelerate,producing a g-load on the body, from the 8.5 million pounds of thrust that is Pushing the vehicle. Shortly we will roll to a heads down position to put us on the correct trajectory path,we will drop off the solid propellant boosters,then accellerate again by allowing the main engines to run a little longer. We then will jettison the external tank and finally we will use the Orbital Maneuver System Pod engines ( OMS ) to push us into the correct orbital altitude.

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