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Since the launch of the first Space Shuttle 36 years ago, it has brought … …the first American woman in space, Sally Ride, who will soon be honored in the Women of NASA set! …the first African-American man in space, Guion Bluford. In 2019, the California Science Center will finish construction on an unprecedented display of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, setting it in its vertical full stack configuration, with Orbiter, External Tank, and Solid Rocket Boosters as if ready for liftoff. What better way to celebrate this achievement by remembering this iconic ship in Lego! This set is built to the same scale as the Lego Saturn V, and would make the perfect companion piece!

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Elizabeth first got interested in space after watching the movie Apollo 13 in 1996, and still wants to be an astronaut someday.Icon of a generation, the historic Space Shuttle did so much for connecting the world, exploring deep space, and conducting groundbreaking research. Elizabeth is also a post-secondary instructor in communications and science at several institutions since 2015 her experience includes developing and teaching an astronomy course at Canada's Algonquin College (with Indigenous content as well) to more than 1,000 students since 2020. in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota, a Bachelor of Journalism from Canada's Carleton University and a Bachelor of History from Canada's Athabasca University. Her latest book, ' Why Am I Taller?', is co-written with astronaut Dave Williams. Elizabeth's reporting includes multiple exclusives with the White House and Office of the Vice-President of the United States, an exclusive conversation with aspiring space tourist (and NSYNC bassist) Lance Bass, speaking several times with the International Space Station, witnessing five human spaceflight launches on two continents, working inside a spacesuit, and participating in a simulated Mars mission. She was contributing writer for for 10 years before joining full-time. Like most of these previous space sets, the space shuttle one commemorates a big anniversary Apwill be the 40th anniversary of STS-1's launch, the crewed mission that began the 135 flights of the space shuttle program.įollow Elizabeth Howell on Twitter Follow us on Twitter and on Facebook.Įlizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. 'To go to this scale and target this adult market gives you a sense of the grandeur and the technical detail,' he said of the new space shuttle. Madge added that he sees the shuttle as a 'fresh expression of how we do space stuff,' building on to previous recent Lego sets that featured the Saturn V moon rocket, the International Space Station and the Apollo 11 lunar module to high fidelity. 'We also had to somehow link the front landing gear and the rear landing gear – and a landing function - through a hollow payload bay,' Madge said with a laugh. (Image credit: LEGO)Ĭreative strengthening of the middle section was finally deployed, not least to keep the landing gear working as well. Lego NASA Space Shuttle Discovery designer Milan Madge with his creation.

Related: Lego's International Space Station model is out of this world A Lego designer's NASA vision Including that trip, five shuttle crews visited Hubble until 2010, performing maintenance and upgrades that should keep the telescope operating well into the 2020s.

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Another shuttle crew, STS-61, visited Hubble in December 1993 to install a corrective optics package, addressing the problem. Shortly after the telescope's deployment, a flaw in the optical system was found that forced an engineering fix to address the telescope's myopia. The unexpected happened to the engineers that built Hubble.

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But you know full well that life doesn't always deliver the circumstances as you intended.' 'You get a group of people together to do a mission, and you do a lot of planning and you do write a plan. 'A common adage in the astronaut corps is plans are nothing, but planning is everything,' she said. She said the challenges of putting things together in the right way - even if you make a mistake during building - apply even during real-life space missions.

Sullivan herself didn't use Lego as a child, although she did use erector-type sets. The set is targeted for the adult crowd, as opposed to numerous other space shuttle sets made for children in past decades.

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