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.
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.