![]() ![]() The LEGO shuttle kit that will be aboard STS-134 builds a bigger model than the STS-133 toy. LEGO's version of the International Space Station will be part of the company's City line of building sets in 2011. "There is a space shuttle set and then there are two kits that are the space station." ![]() "The first set is actually just a workbench, it has pegs to help us control ," Biggs told collectSPACE. The first three will launch with STS-134, shuttle Endeavour's final mission. More than a dozen LEGO building activities will be flown to the station over the next two years. "We'll be doing different activities, building demonstrations and then demonstrations with the models once they are built," added Debbie Biggs, an education specialist for the ISS National Lab education projects office. "We are going to use the classroom of space - the International Space Station - to help the next generation of explorers," explained Leland Melvin, a former astronaut who last month was appointed as NASA's new associate administrator for education. "Our partnership will continue on 134, scheduled for February, when we'll be sending LEGO kits aloft and we'll be doing education outreach with students on the ground," said NASA spokeswoman Ann Marie Trotta. The seven-inch long LEGO shuttle, which was assembled from about 60 of the iconic toy pieces, gives new meaning to the term "flying brick" as popularly used to describe the real shuttle given that it returns to Earth as a very heavy unpowered glider.Īccording to NASA, the snap-together shuttle may make a brief appearance in space during Discovery's STS-133 mission and will then be brought back to Earth for use by LEGO in educational activities.Ī follow-on flight however will see astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) build NASA and science themed LEGO sets. When space shuttle Discovery lifts off on its final mission, it will have a small LEGO version of itself onboard to help launch a new partnership between the Denmark-based toy company and NASA. ![]()
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