bunnybundy:

monsterman:

spacequest:

Space Legos! Alpha-1 Rocket Base (via Phil Are Go!: Lego Week Pt 1 - Space Legos!)

Used to have this set.

Oh mah gawd their little Saturn V rocket is so CUUUUTE!

This is great!

(via lightthiscandle)

brookhavenlab:

Our friends over at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory had a little fun with Legos and built this toy model of their linear particle accelerator. We love it!

Anyone with a little extra time want to build a Lego version of our STAR detector? We’d totally dig that. 

Awesome!

for-all-mankind:

archiemcphee:

LEGOs are already awesome, but LEGOs in space are Super Awesome!

Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa built a Lego model of the International Space Station while he was actually ON the International Space Station. It’s the geekiest, most wonderful example of meta we’ve ever seen. CollectSPACE.com reports that the model was “part of an educational collaboration between the Danish toy company and NASA.” You can watch a brief time lapse video of the model coming together and read more about it over on CollectSPACE.com.

[via Craftzine]

Oh. My. Gosh. I need this. SO BAD!

Okay, now he’s just showing off…

complex34:

Stratos jump successful! (by Stratos Jump)

The LEGO version exists already.

WHO MADE THIS BEAUTIFUL THING?

longlivewalt:

Whoever decided to create Lego Rod Serling and re-enact the Tower of Terror video, I salute you!

Indeed.

avarielle:

the-star-stuff:

Building Blocks: Awesome Lego Science Models

1. Curiosity

2. Space Rockets

3. Space Shuttle

4. Genetic Code

5. Bombs & Mushroom Clouds

6. Genetic Engineering

7. Robotic Limb

8. Periodic Table

9. ATLAS Detector

10. Magnetic Resonance Imaging

HELLO CURIOSITY!

Wow, the Curiosity one looks great! 

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shuttleisland:

lightthiscandle:

kgyst:

Teens Put Lego Man in ‘Space’ (Actually Stratosphere)

That’s one giant leap for Lego. Two Canadian highschoolers have wowed the Web with their video of a Lego toy taking a balloon ride to near-space.

The video, made by Toronto 17-year-olds Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, shows a tiny Lego man holding a Canadian flag with the blue curve of the Earth far below and the black of space above. It is the latest example of do-it-yourself near-space photography by an amateur balloon launching team.

The teens used a weather balloon to carry the Lego minifigure and set of cameras, one with a fish-eye lens, into to the stratosphere, ultimately reaching a height of nearly 80,000 feet (24,384 meters) before the balloon burst, according to the Toronto Star . Once the balloon popped, the Lego man and its attached cameras fell back to Earth under a homemade parachute.

Pictures that they have taken:

Photo Credit: Lego Man In Space, Mission Success Album

Just…wow.

Very cool. Those are two extremely bright 17 year olds. Good for them! :)

I am very impressed.

inothernews:

ohhleary:

guardian:

Video: Youtube/mathewmho

Lego man in space: one (very) small step

Two teenagers from Toronto sent a Lego man carrying a Canadian flag into the stratosphere. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, attached four cameras to a balloon carrying the toy astronaut 24km above Earth. A week after launch they recovered their Lego man in a field, and discovered they had captured stunning space footage

We bought a weather balloon with points!

ohhleary you jerk, I almost spit my coffee out.

Cool, but technically, like all near-space balloon projects, this didn’t actually reach space. (That’s why it’s called NEAR-space ballooning.)

(via asonlynasacan)

unknownskywalker:

LEGO Saturn V Rocket

This enormous 19 foot tall Saturn V rocket was buiilt by Certified LEGO professional Ryan McNaught. His model lovingly recreates the American moon rocket in some 120,000 pieces, complete with the iconic red launch tower and the astrovan used to ferry astronauts to their rides. Even more amazing is the fact that McNaught also modeled the rocket’s internal fuel tanks.

Awesome!

(via project-argus)

complex34:

This man made a Saturn V. Out of Legos. With launch tower.

Woah!