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Lego is set to cycle out its minifigure sets to account the women of NASA. Four beat women accept been adapted into comedy sets.
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They accommodate Nancy Grace Roman, an astronomer who helped advance the Hubble Amplitude Telescope; Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist who led development of onboard flight software for Apollo missions; Sally Ride, the aboriginal American woman in space; and Mae Jemison, the aboriginal African-American woman in space.
The set is the abstraction of science columnist Maia Weinstock, who pitched the abstraction as allotment the Lego Ideas website that lets fan actualize Lego sets that are again voted on by the accessible afore actuality advised for production. Other fan-created sets that accept been produced accommodate "Doctor Who" and "Big Bang Theory."
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“In all realms of science, engineering, and technology, beat women accept historically been underappreciated for their generally groundbreaking work,” Weinstock said in a columnist release. “We accept additionally apparent that back girls and women are accustomed added advance in the STEM (science/technology/engineering/math) fields, they become added acceptable to accompany careers in these areas.”
The aboriginal abstraction additionally included Katherine Johnson, one of the mathematicians who formed on NASA’s Gemini affairs and whose adventure was told in the contempo blur “Hidden Figures.” Johnson, though, absitively to not participate in the final Lego set.
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The four who are included will affection minifigures but additionally accompanying items such as a mini Hubble Amplitude Telescope and angel of a billow for Nancy Grace Roman and mini Amplitude Shuttle Challenger for astronauts Ride and Jemison. The final designs were done by Lego designers Tara Wike and Gemma Anderson.
The sets will go on auction Nov. 1.
["1514.17"]“With this project, I capital to spotlight a absurd accumulation of women who accept fabricated seminal contributions to NASA history,” Weinstock said. “My dream would be to apperceive that the aboriginal animal on Mars — or an architect or computer scientist who helped her get there — played with the Lego Women of NASA as a adolescent and was aggressive to accompany a STEM career as a result.”
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