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NASA Sends Lego Figures to Jupiter

Posted by samzenpus on from the universal-toy dept.

bLanark writes "NASA have teamed up with Lego and will send three specially crafted, minifigures towards Jupiter in a probe to be launched on an Atlas V rocket on Friday. The figures, representing Roman gods Jupiter and Juno, and astronomer Galileo, are machined from aluminum and are the normal size for Lego minifigures. From the article: 'This (until now) secret installation was initiated by NASA scientists, who love Lego as much as anyone and wanted to do something memorable for this mission. They approached Lego and the company loved the idea. It saw the project as a way to promote children’s education and STEM programs.'"

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  1. 2011: by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    A Lego Odyssey

    they should have at least thrown in a standard 8x2 thin black piece mounted vertically as a joke

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  2. Re:Lets knock the trolls out of the way by blair1q · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can I interest you in a course in HTML?

  3. Re:Juno got the shaft by VIPERsssss · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wikipedia says she's "goddess of marriage" so the frying pan makes sense.

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  4. Material Science 101 by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 3, Funny

    a magnifying glass, because she can "peer into the heart of Jupiter"

    Then they should have made that part out of transparent aluminum. ;)

  5. Re:Lets knock the trolls out of the way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's there, but they've mislabeled it as "Preview"