The International Space Station is the most expensive vehicle in existence, even more expensive than a , or a . At $150 billion dollars, it’s slightly out of my price range, and the fact that it is in space probably means we’re not going to get a on it anytime soon.
Thankfully, we have an acceptable substitute coming from Lego, a company which I will now refer to as a Danish vehicle manufacturer. The new ISS Lego set went on sale today for about $70, a significant discount on the real thing. It won’t go to space, but the company did strap one to a balloon and launched it to the . Lego announced the set after it won a fan poll on the Lego Ideas website. The design had been submitted and rejected.
According to Lego, NASA experts were consulted and approved the final design. The set comes with a space shuttle orbiter which of course hasn’t been used since 2011, although the set also includes a cargo vehicle that bears some resemblance to SpaceX’s Dragon.
The ISS is a nice addition to Lego’s pretty sweet space sets, including a and an Apollo . They’ll go well with your Lego collection of .