The NASA Saturn V set, brought to you by Lego Ideas program, is out of this world.
There’s been no shortage of space-themed Lego sets over the years – after all, the toy company has been making them since 1978. But the latest set to come out of the Lego Ideas program, the NASA Saturn V, will blow you away – right past that Final Frontier.
To this day, the Saturn V is the largest and most powerful NASA rocket. It was developed to support the Apollo program and it remains the only launch vehicle to carry humans beyond Earth. Which, of course, makes the Saturn V the rocket that launched the Apollo 11 flight, putting Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon.
The Lego recreation contains all three stages, or parts, of the rocket, as well as a Lunar Lander, Lunar Orbiter and parts of the Command and Service module. All together, you’re looking at a full meter (or over 39 inches) of Lego spaceship glory. The set also includes astronauts and a display stand, if you would like to follow NASA’s lead and display the retired rocket horizontally. It’s even made of 1,969 pieces, a nod to the year the U.S. landed on the Moon.
As the Verge puts it, “it’s an entire Apollo mission in a box.”
The Lego Ideas program allows builders, in this case saabfun, to submit ideas for new sets. Once a proposal receives the co-sign of 10,000 supporters, the concept is reviewed by Lego and, if selected, modified to be consumer-friendly. Recently, the Ideas program yielded another space set called The Women of NASA as well as the bittersweet story of an Australian man with cancer on a mission to create a legacy for his son.
The Lego NASA Saturn V set will be released June 1 for $119.99.
