[ExI] LEGO Worked With NASA To Create Its Most Detailed Space Shuttle Discovery Set Yet

[William Flynn Wallace]

In a few billion years we'll likely be able to move the moon.  Remember
'spindizzy'?  (Cities in Flight - Blish)  bill w

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 6:55 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> > permanent U.S./allies Moonbase
>
> When the sun turns into a red giant in a few billion years and scoops up
> the Earth - and the Moon with it - won't that likely cause survivability
> issues for a base on the Moon?  :P
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 6:30 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> I can't get over that Hubble was deployed back in 1991, and that the
>> space shuttles are now ancient history. But with a resurgent China now
>> committed to a very active space program, the rivalry created by it should
>> get NASA and American private enterprise moving forward out of a desire to
>> not be left behind... I hope to see within my lifetime a permanent
>> U.S./allies Moonbase, and a manned mission to Mars. I suppose there will be
>> two big manned missions to Mars, one by China, and the other by the U.S.
>> and her allies.
>>
>> "Over three decades ago, NASA's STS-31 mission saw the Space Shuttle
>> Discovery launch and bring with it the iconic Hubble Space Telescope. The
>> Hubble is still orbiting the Earth today, and it continues to beam back
>> images of our universe to help us understand more about the cosmos. To
>> celebrate all of the time the telescope has spent among the stars, LEGO
>> <https://rstyle.me/+NUIRbcZx3Y8jw9fe4ZKInw> has developed a new Space
>> Shuttle Discovery set
>> <https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2021/march/lego-nasa-discovery-space-shuttle>
>> in collaboration with NASA."
>>
>> https://mymodernmet.com/lego-space-shuttle-discovery/
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