You'll also need to be careful that the base of the shuttle stays together while the top-heavy payload bay is under construction a piece or two fell out from the bottom during my build, but I easily put it back together. One example is the numerous reflective stickers that must paste precisely onto sections of the payload bay doors, which happens at the tail end of a huge bag of pieces where you might be tired anyway. Next, pace yourself, as parts of the set require a lot of delicacy to put together and you'll want to be at high energy when those sections come up. I made it in the end, but it was a tight squeeze as the final set is 8.5 inches (21 centimeters) high, 21 inches (54 cm) long and 13.5 inches (34 cm) wide. My available desk space was roughly 3 feet by 2 feet (1 meter by 0.6 meters) I'd recommend a little larger as organizing the pieces, manual and ever-growing shuttle got tougher as the hours continued. The first one is to have a very large surface. In NASA style, I recorded some "lessons learned" from constructing this set. The Hubble Space Telescope is an amazing co-star in Lego's new NASA Space Shuttle Discovery set. Related: Lego reveals space shuttle Discovery set featuring Hubble Telescope But really, what's the rush? It's a set well worth admiring as you go. Incredibly adept Lego builders will probably clock well under 10 hours, while first-timers can expect to spend a lot more time. I was moving fairly quickly as I have experience putting together other recent large space sets such as the International Space Station (864 pieces), the Apollo 11 Eagle lander (1,087 pieces) and the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket (1,969 pieces in honor of its launching year, 1969.) But your mileage may vary. My build with "frustration-free packaging" (meaning the pieces and stickers were organized in 17 numbered bags and a couple of unlabeled ones) took me nearly 11 hours to complete. This set is tailored firmly for the adult, display-only crowd. It's far from Lego's first shuttle set, and long-time Lego fans probably know that the company released a Hubble-shuttle set for children some years ago. The set has been added to the LEGO 2021 checklist.The NASA Space Shuttle Discovery set (MSRP $199.99 USD) releases Thursday (April 1) with 2,354 pieces to put together. Hubble is definitely the highlight of my career.’ ‘Looking at the model, it was great to reminisce about my experiences in space launching the telescope for the first time. ‘I was thrilled to see the space shuttle in LEGO form, and was very impressed by the amount of intricate detail they have managed to recreate from the module where we used to sleep and eat through to what we called the “milk stalls” on the telescope,’ said former astronaut Dr. This was without a doubt the most challenging part of this model – trying to couple the front and main landing gear without removing any space from the payload bay and without compromising the structure of the model.’ Add functional landing gear and you have a real puzzle. ‘Generally, in a LEGO model we can rely on the size to accommodate the structure that holds the whole set together, but on the Discovery Space Shuttle we needed to create a smooth exterior and an interior capable of holding the payload. In the real vehicle every inch of space is used in ingenious ways,’ said LEGO Model Designer Milan Madge. ‘The Space Shuttle is the most complex vehicle ever made, so as you can imagine, translating this into LEGO was an exciting challenge. It can be stowed in the payload bay ready for builders to recreate its deployment. The set also builds the Hubble Space Telescope, with its hinged mirror housing and new gold foil solar arrays. Inside there is a crew cabin with the five seats for the astronauts, the flight and robotic arm (Remote Manipulator System) control panels and the space shuttle’s storage lockers. Other authentic touched include the engines, with three main engines for launch and smaller engines that are used for in-orbit manoeuvres. The model includes functional landing gear, payload bay doors and reflective stickers depict the cooling radiators.
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