Explore the professions of some of the groundbreaking women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) with the LEGO® Ideas Women of NASA set. It features minifigures of 4 pioneering women of NASA— astronomer and educator Nancy Grace Roman, computer scientist and entrepreneur Margaret Hamilton, astronaut, physicist and entrepreneur Sally Ride and astronaut, physician and engineer Mae Jemison—and 3 builds illustrating their areas of expertise. Role-play space exploration from planning to moon landing, beginning with the iconic scene from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969 of Hamilton with software that she and her team programmed. Build the posable Hubble Space Telescope and launch a LEGO version of the Space Shuttle Challenger with 3 removable rocket stages. The set also includes a booklet about the 4 featured women of NASA, and the fan creator and LEGO designers of this fun and educational set.
• Includes 4 minifigures: Nancy Grace Roman, Margaret Hamilton, Sally Ride and Mae Jemison.
• Features 3 LEGO® builds illustrating the areas of expertise of the 4 featured women of NASA.
• Nancy Grace Roman’s build features a posable Hubble Space Telescope with authentic details and a projected image of a planetary nebula.
• Margaret Hamilton’s build features a stack of book elements, representing the books of listings of Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) onboard flight software source code.
• Sally Ride and Mae Jemison’s build features a launchpad and Space Shuttle Challenger with 3 removable rocket stages.
• Also includes printed nameplates for each of the 4 women featured in this set.
• Great for role-playing space exploration missions.
• Includes a booklet with building instructions, plus information about the 4 featured women of NASA, the set’s fan creator and the LEGO designers.
• Nancy Grace Roman’s build measures over 2"" (7cm) high, 3” (9cm) wide and 2” (6cm) deep.
• Margaret Hamilton’s build measures over 2"" (6cm) high, 3” (8cm) wide and 1” (4cm) deep.
• Sally Ride and Mae Jemison’s build measures over 4"" (12cm) high, 3” (10cm) wide and 2” (6cm) deep.
Margaret Hamilton, who helped develop on-board software for the NASA Apollo Space Program, admires the LEGO minifigure version of herself.
A new playset from LEGO will honor four key women in NASA history—astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, and pioneering astronauts Sally Ride and Mae Jemison. The 231-piece set will be released on November 1, with a recommended selling price of $24.99.
First proposed in July, 2016 by the deputy editor of MIT News, science writer Maia Weinstock, on the LEGO Ideas website, the project reached 10,000 supporters in just 15 days. "The set clearly touched and inspired many," Weinstock said. In addition to the historical minifigures, the set includes three builds that put the work of each woman into historical context.
First proposed in July, 2016 by the deputy editor of MIT News, science writer Maia Weinstock, on the LEGO Ideas website, the project reached 10,000 supporters in just 15 days. "The set clearly touched and inspired many," Weinstock said. In addition to the historical minifigures, the set includes three builds that put the work of each woman into historical context.
For Nancy Grace Roman, the set features a 7cm-high, 9cm-wide build of the Hubble Space Telescope. Roman came to NASA in 1959 and served as the space agency's first "chief of astronomy." She played a key role in the early design studies of the space telescope and is known as the "Mother of Hubble" for building support in the community for such a project.
Margaret Hamilton led a software engineering group at MIT that wrote the software used aboard the Lunar Module during landing on the Moon. Her build features a stack of book elements, representing the books of listings of Apollo Guidance Computer onboard flight software source code. (This also reflects an image of Hamilton shared widely on social media).
Ride and Jemison were two of NASA's pioneering female astronauts. Ride was the first American woman to fly in space, in 1983. Jemison was the first black woman to fly in space, in 1992. Their build features a 12cm-tall space shuttle complete with a launch pad and three separable stages. We can't wait to build all of it.
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