Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.
What do two dinosaur tails, four beehives, six segments of roller coaster track and 88 faucets have to do with a rocket designed to fly astronauts to the moon?model, now lifting off from store shelves. The $259.99 set, which was released Saturday , includes both the rocket and its mobile launcher , built up from 3,601 pieces.
"Unlike the real-life , the Lego SLS platform has partly open sides showing interior details like pipes and staircases," reads one of notes included within the kit's instruction book. The hoses on the Orion servicing module umbilical are represented in the Lego Icons NASA Artemis Space Launch System set by red and grey dinosaur tails first produced for a prior set.At the base of the rocket, Lego has also recreated the aft skirt electrical umbilicals, aft skirt purge umbilicals and vehicle support posts, which service the two solid rocket boosters and supports the 5.75 million pounds that the Space Launch System weighs.
From their exterior, the Lego tail service masts appear to be accurate miniatures of the actual hardware. Hidden inside them, though, is an"easter egg" that points to a different fuel source.
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