Some of the Smallest and Most Intrepid Space Explorers You’ll Ever See
August 6, 2011
Here at Robot House, we do love a little bit of distraction to make the working day go around and so when our intern found this little gem of information, it had to be shared with the rest of the team!
It turns out that NASA has commissioned LEGO to make three tiny figurines that will fly aboard the space probe ‘Juno’ to Jupiter.
The figurines are depictions of the Greek Gods Juno and Jupiter and also of Italian astronomer, Galileo.
Made of pure aluminium and at a cost of $5,000 USD each, the tiny troupe will arrive on Jupiter in the year 2016 to monitor the planet and it’s moons and gather more information about the biggest planet in the solar system.
In the office, only two questions are going around:
1) What would you send into space if you had the option?
2) Is being immortalised in LEGO an honour?!
We’d love your thoughts on this!
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