We, Emmanuel Urquieta (crew member and Doctor of space medicine at NASA) and Valerie Roche (co-designer of the Lego Saturn-v rocket), present this collaborative project at Lego Ideas. This is the design of the launch tower: NASA Saturn-V Launch Umbilical Tower, scaled at 1 / 110th, identical to the scale of the Saturn-V rocket. Hello, We are sending you this message to inform the Lego fans of the existence of the ideal complement to the Lego set 21309: NASA Apollo Saturn-V rocket. Anything said in this post is the opinion of the author and not The LEGO Group. But I'm sure it will still be on shelves at that time, perhaps even getting a new boost in production.ĭisclaimer: This LEGO set was provided for review by The LEGO Group. If the set had been released a little later, in 2019 on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, it would get a lot more attention. The LEGO shop says they are "temporarily out of stock" so hopefully more will be coming soon! Alternatively, you might find some in stores or search on Amazon and eBay via the links below. The LEGO Ideas sets don't usually stay in production for very long, and this one sold out very quickly on the first day. Having exactly 1969 parts is quite a clever achievement, I wonder how many iterations it took to add or remove just a few more parts to get to that magic number! Now I just have to figure out how to display such a huge model :) I'm a huge space fan, so this set was an automatic must-have from the moment it was announced. The launch escape tower is the only slight annoyance making this kind of play a little cumbersome. The ability to extract the Lunar Module and dock it with the Service Module is neat, as is it's ability to separate it's ascent stage. The detachable stages and command/service modules are fantastic. Knowing it's 1m tall doesn't really prepare you for the thickness and solidity of the whole rocket. The size is pretty deceptive from photos. Also the colour scheme is pretty much spot on, although the real rocket had a few variations over it's lifetime. I love the attention to detail - for example the external piping on the side of the rocket, all the little extra bits poking out of the rocket like ullage motors, attenaes etc. It probably helps to build all 4 items in parallel. There is a lot of 4-way symetrical building and repeated steps, but they are fairly small items for the most part and it never bothered me. Despite some initial delicate parts placements, the overall rocket is extremely rigid and well put together.
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