LEGO Alert: LEGO Women of Nasa Aims to Inspire Children to Reach for Space

Children are being inspired to break science boundaries, with the new Women of NASA Lego set to be released on 01 November 2017.

Nancy Grace Roman, Margaret Hamilton, Sally Ride and Mae Jemison are the four scientists who will be immortalised in the construction toy

Nancy Grace Roman’s build features an authentically detailed Hubble Space Telescope with projected image of a planetary nebula. Margaret Hamilton’s features a stack of book elements, representing the books of listings of Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) onboard flight software source code. And Sally Ride and Mae Jemison’s build features a launchpad and Space Shuttle Challenger with three removable rocket stages.

“In all realms of science, engineering, and technology, pioneering women have historically been underappreciated for their often groundbreaking work. We have also seen that when girls and women are given more encouragement in the STEM fields, they become more likely to pursue careers in these areas,”  Maia Weinstock said.

“With this project, I wanted to spotlight a fantastic group of women who have made seminal contributions to NASA history. My dream would be to know that the first human on Mars — or an engineer or computer scientist who helped her get there — played with the LEGO Women of NASA as a child and was inspired to pursue a STEM career as a result.”

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