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

[Adrian Tymes]

> 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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