The first Dane in space is bringing friends ... 20 LEGO astronauts - Christian Science Monitor
At 12:37 Eastern time on Wednesday, the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying the first Dane in space and his Legos and marking the 500th spacecraft launch since Yuri Gagarin’s first mission to... “For the past two years, the crews have taken a more direct, six-hour flight, but the Russian Federal Space Agency decided last week to revert to the traditional route, citing security concerns after the International Space Station had to adjust... The European Space Agency and LEGO Education have partnered together to run “a competition for Danish school children to tell a story about my [Mogensen’s] mission using LEGOs and making a video of their story,” wrote Mr. Mogensen on a Reddit "Ask... The custom LEGO figurines don the ESA logo or one of the two “iriss” mission patches and will be given out as prizes to the school children in the joint ESA and Mogensen mission competition. In 2011, LEGO sent three figurines of the Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno, and Galileo Galilei to Jupiter as part of the "LEGO Bricks in Space project," a NASA sponsored initiative designed to inspire children to pursue science, math,... Source: www.csmonitor.com
