Posted April 7th, 2020, 4:54 PM
After much procrastination and fiddling with my N1-6L, Volume III of "Bricks in Space" is done! Contrary to previous volumes, it only has a single MOC, but it contains in two Parts and over 400 pages the complete instructions to build Nathan Readioff's LUT.
This is the "Bricks to Space" series of books
Click on the images to see more and download a free copy. Currently volumes I through III are available, more books coming soon!
During the Cold War, few things united so many people as their fascination with space, and the attempts of both Superpowers to “win” the Space Race. Volume I of “Bricks in Space” presents fiveteen LEGO-builds of US rockets that helped propel NASA—and humankind—into space.
On April 12th, 1961 a Soviet Kosmonaut named Yuri Gagarin rode to the Skies in a Vostok space capsule and circled the Earth three times before landing safe in the steppes of Kazachstan. The world was in awe, the US in shock. Only a month later, the new US president raised the bets and asked congress for funds to send a man to the Moon, before the decade’s end. This volume covers the US moon program from its inception to the first US space station - Skylab
Every spacecraft needs a launch tower built upon a rocket launch pad. These towers and pads are utilitarian in nature from acting as a support structure, allows “pad rats” (the crew) work on the structure and inject fuel, and is used to allow access for the crew via an elevator. The first model of the LUT was built by Valerie Roche, the creator of the Saturn V model, but for this series we've decided on the model by Nathan_Readioff for publication. Several other models exist which are equally awesome.
Constructing the LUT takes roughly 8.000 pieces, and the instructions are long enough to warrant its own volume. Thus, this book only contains instructions to build the LUT.
After the successful Moon missions NASA's role was greatly diminished, as recession and the Vietnam War dried out its budget. Nevertheless, the USA managed to follow up to the Moon mission with a whole host of successful expeditions, sending robot probes all over the Solar System - any ultimatively, beyond.
For most of its existence, the Soviet Union had a comfortable lead in the space race, once you ignore the failed bid to the moon. Despite disadvantages in technology, the USSR built a modular space station, where its cosmonauts caunted their space-time in years as opposed to the week-long stints theit US colleagues were doing in the Shuttle. This volume covers the Soviet Space program.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, space ceased to be exiting. Public interest waned even further, until in the 2010s private enterprises rejuvenated interest in Space. New players like Space X and Blue Origin promise to make space exiting again, and of course in the past thirty years more nations have started their own space programs - first and foremost China, but of course the EU and India also have long-standing programs. This volume covers space launchers from 1990 to the present
The Lego Saturn and other Space Builds Facebook Group
Bricks in Space - Website
under construction with many more models than these books.
Google Drive Folder
with a huge Collection of digital models of current and historical rockets at 1:110 scale
Martin Sira's Model Collection
List of LEGO models of rockets, spacecrafts and probes
Lego Ideas
The crowdfunding platform enabling users to post their own plans and models and let others support them. Birthplace of the Saturn V model.
Stud.io
A Lego CAD programwhich has evolved to be the de facto standard of digital Lego design, since Lego unfortunately decided to discontinue development of their own CAD program.
NASA History Office
Provides countless histories, documentations and multimedia files on the history of human space flight.
Astronautix
Mark Wade’s encyclopedia is the definitive reference for any rocket that was ever dreamt up, designed, or built to fly. Don’t let the aging design fool you.
Author's Collection
