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LEGO Returning to Earth


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For the last two years, the International Space Station has carried hundreds of LEGO pieces in orbit around our little blue marble, demonstrating zero-g physics to kids in classrooms below. Kids were given the pieces to create LEGO machines and objects, observe how they function, then compare them to the same LEGO model in space, noting how the behavior of the machine changed.

Also on board the ISS were a model of the space shuttle and a 3-foot replica of the ISS itself, which can only be built in space as the model collapses under its own weight here on Earth.



The LEGO collection was sent back to Earth on SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, which landed in the Pacific Ocean yesterday, carrying 2,700 pounds of equipment and science samples as well as the 13 LEGO sets. Some of the sets will be returned to LEGO, others will be kept by NASA, where they will eventually go on display.

This isn't the end of LEGO and NASA's partnership, though. LEGO and NASA are now looking at the possibility of bringing the new LEGO Mindstorms EV3 system to the space station. LEGOs in space? More later!

Sources: Yahoo News
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Long, relatively unstable, tricky to stand, but only a problem in a gravity environment. That truly is a creation made for space.

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I've never seen a LEGO creation like this. They all crumble. In space it's like you have a whole new way to build things. LET'S MOVE ALL LEGO INTO SPACE YAAAY

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