Lego Makes Our Space Exploration Dreams Even Bigger With Enormous Saturn V – Culturess

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Never underestimate the power of a LEGO Ideas project. The LEGO Ideas project is a wonderful place where your wildest dreams of LEGOing can come to life. Come up with a concept, get 10,000 supporters, and the LEGO review board will decide if they want to turn your idea into a real life LEGO set. Thats the process two spaceflight enthusiasts went through to make theNASA Apollo Saturn V LEGO project a reality.

Announced on the LEGO Ideas blog a few days ago, the NASA Apollo Saturn V is an enormous LEGO projectfarlarger than what youd find at your local Walmart or Target in the toys section. Its the tallest LEGO Ideas set yet, standing at a meter high, and with 1969 pieces, giving it the most elements out of any LEGO Ideas set as well. It costs $119.99 USD, so its not cheap, but as you can see, theres a darned good reason for that.

The NASA Apollo Saturn V comes with a stand to display the rocket horizontally, three brand new astronaut figures, and a booklet with information about the manned Apollo missions.

Notably, it was created by only two people who have never met one another in person: Felix Stiessen and Valrie Roche. According to the blog, the two helped motivate the other and continued the project even when one had to step away for a few weeks. The official LEGO design team had to make some alterations once the project was approved to ensure it would work as a design under LEGOs quality standards, resulting in the final product you see above.

The ability of LEGO to cross so many different genres and reach so many peoples love of creating and building is wondrous. Ive played with tiny, science fiction spaceships in LEGO form, but I cant even fathom the amount of work, dedication,study, and love of space science and engineering it must have taken to come up with this design. Thanks to Stiessen and Roche for giving us this wonderful new way to learn about the world beyond Earths orbit!

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