Lego: space shuttle nostalgia

Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavour are now undergoing preparations for carrying out their last mission. And it is Atlantis that is to lead off this last flight period with a blast-off scheduled on 14 May 2010 for STS-132 mission. With the retiring of the space shuttles, nostalgia is increasing and the manufacturer Lego has obviously got the message: during the month of June 2010, the Danish company is to market a space shuttle which appears highly promising (it even has the robotic arm in the payload bay!). In the video below, Lego’s designer Simon Kent explains at the beginning that it was the decommissioning of NASA’s space planes that motivated the creation of the 1,204 part set which is to retail at €89.99.

Published on 10 May 2010

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