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It Came From Outer Space

A Lego Tribute To The End Of The Space Shuttle Era

by Jill Pantozzi | 6:00 pm, March 4th, 2012


Well this is just plain pretty. It’s a Lego-made space shuttle launch! YouTube user vinciverse writes, “The launch took place from central Germany and reached a max altitude of 35000m. A 1600g meteo balloon filled with helium was used alongside a GoPro Hero, Spot GPS and of course Lego Space Shuttle model 3367.” (The song is “Welcome Home” by Radical Face) No word on how, when or if it ever came back to Earth but I like to think it just kept going…

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  • Anonymous

    Let’s see how many old people are here.

    If I start singing, “Smaaall Stuff spaaace shuttllle…”

  • http://twitter.com/sammartino Steve Sammartino

    We tracked it via GPS – it landed in the mountains in Germany – We found it and recovered the video.

    Steve Sammartino

  • Paulus Wallus

    Absolutely brilliant! Congratulations to all!

    I am concerned about the Borg Cube that comes in for a look at 2:26 though.

  • E S

    Whoa, quite an amazing project!

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