LEGO ISS built aboard International Space Station inside zero-G build bubble

Sending LEGO into space isn’t actually all that new, but an astronaut building a LEGO model of the spacecraft he’s in certainly is. Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa recently built a LEGO version of the International Space Station while aboard the ISS itself.

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The full story and more photos are over on collectSPACE, and you can watch a NASA video on YouTube as well.

Gotta love that special build bubble to keep the LEGO elements from floating away to who knows where inside the ISS.

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2 comments on “LEGO ISS built aboard International Space Station inside zero-G build bubble”

  1. Deus

    Man, I wish I could build in space… Never having to worry about clutch power and stability on my dragons…

    And the wonders it would do to presentation!

  2. Creative Anarchy

    Think of it as just another 5 axis’s that you can lose pieces in. Although every model is swooshable in zero G.

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