Fleas
I watched as the space shuttle launched from Cape Canaveral.
The most likely reason that could prevent a shuttle from not launching is of a lighting strike violenty hits it.
Newton's second law of motion states that the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass (F = ma). During a shuttle's takeoff, the engines generate a significant thrust that exceeds the gravitational force acting on the shuttle, resulting in a net force that causes an increase in acceleration. As the shuttle burns fuel, its mass decreases, allowing for even greater acceleration as the same thrust acts on a lighter object. Thus, both the increase in thrust and the decrease in mass contribute to the shuttle's increasing acceleration during takeoff.
Cape Canaveral, on the northeast coast of Florida.
depends where you launch from and where you go
There are thousands of items on hundreds of checklists completed by thousands of technicians, engineers and astronauts at the Kennedy Space Center that must be completed before launching a space shuttle. These preparations start several days before the scheduled launch.
Weightlessness
there was 2 .. launching to get to the international space station up in space
As the space shuttle orbits the Earth, both the shuttle and the astronauts inside experience the same gravitational acceleration towards the Earth. This gives the sensation of weightlessness because everything inside the shuttle is falling towards Earth at the same rate, creating the feeling of floating.
One. That's the big orange thing you see the shuttle strapped to when it's on the launching pad.
It doesn't. The space shuttle never gets significantly closer to the Moon than its launching pad does (the space shuttle generally operates at a few hundred miles altitude, tops; the Moon is 240,000 miles away).
There is a maximum of 3 G's during the shuttle launch.