Four Lego minifigures are going to take a experience across the moon.
The characters “Kate” and “Kyle” from Lego Education’s SPIKE Prime system, in addition to “Julia” and “Sebastian” from the Lego City toy line, will experience as tiny crewmembers on NASA’s Artemis 1 mission launching in February 2022.
The Artemis 1 mission will check company’s new Space Launch System megarocket and its Orion spacecraft on a visit across the moon, with the quartet of minifigures becoming a member of a crew of human avatars together with a “Moonikin” and vest-wearing “dummies.”
The minifigures additionally star within the educationally targeted “Build to Launch: A STEAM Exploration Series,” obtainable now on the Lego Education website for fogeys, educators and college students. The sequence contains 10 weeks of digital content material about space and associated matters in STEAM (science, expertise, engineering, artwork and arithmetic.)
Just like several astronauts, the minifigures even have a set of six floor controllers that may assist the spaceflyers. “Each Space Team minifigure represents a real-life counterpart, such as a command pilot Kate and mission specialist Kyle, to help students better understand the diverse roles, backgrounds, and skillsets within the Artemis I team,” Lego Education said in a statement Monday (Nov. 8).
“Each minifigure will host episodes featuring their NASA counterpart, as well as interact with students and teachers who submit questions and share their learning experiences on social media using #BuildtoLaunch,” Lego Education added.
Lego is a long-time supplier of initiatives and minifigurines primarily based on real-life NASA missions, together with a number of generations of space shuttles and Mars rovers for teenagers, and a rising set of adult-style Lego builds that includes iconic {hardware} just like the Hubble Space Telescope, the Discovery space shuttle, the Saturn V that took Apollo 11 to the moon, and the Apollo 11 Eagle lander.
In 2019, upon the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, NASA launched a short guidebook to varied collaborations between Lego and the company way back to the Nineties. “NASA and the LEGO Group have a long history of collaboration on projects that engage children and adults alike to encourage interest in STEM fields and space exploration,” the company stated on the time.
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