Lego has revealed their next fan-designed set and it’s celebrating the women of Nasa.
Hot on the heels of the Oscar-nominated flick ‘Hidden Figures’, Lego has confirmed plans to immortalise female scientists, engineers and astronauts who’ve worked for the space agency.
Maia Weinstock, an American science writer who created @legoNASAwomen, tweeted the good news after thousands of people got behind her idea.
Thrilled to finally share: @LegoNASAWomen has passed the @LEGOIdeas Review and will soon be a real LEGO set! https://t.co/rcyjANsVD9 pic.twitter.com/b9OVx5UBaL
— Maia Weinstock (@20tauri) February 28, 2017
Among the women of the collection are Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist who helped develop the flight software for the Apollo missions.
It also includes Katherine Johnson, a mathematician and NASA researcher who helped calculate trajectories for the Mercury and Apollo programs, she was the inspiration behind the film Hidden Figures, and appeared on stage with the stars of the film at the Oscars.
Academy Awards 2017 Kevin Winter/Getty Images
The other women in the set are equally as impressive, Sally Ride was a physicist who eventually became the first American woman in space in 1983.
Nancy Grace Roman, also known as the ‘Mother of Hubble’ was an astronomer and NASA executive, and Mae Jemison was a physician who became the first African-American woman in space in 1992.
The Lego set hopes to educate and inspire little girls around the world to be the next trailblazers in maths and science.
