{"id":4832,"date":"2013-10-07T17:14:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T17:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2013-10-07T17:14:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T17:14:37","slug":"lego-space-new-book-on-modeling-space-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4832","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;LEGO Space&#8221; &#8211; new book on modeling space hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/legospace\" target=\"_d\">LEGO Space<\/a>\u00a0by Peter Reid and Tim Goddard :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/10\/lego-space-history\/\" target=\"_d\">Space Exploration Looks Even More Awesome in Lego &#8211; Wired Science<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bulk of Reid and Goddard\u2019s book is devoted to a science-fiction exploration of mankind\u2019s potential future among the stars. The Lego mining astronauts of tomorrow find themselves building moon and Mars bases, working with intelligent robots, constructing wormholes to distant worlds, and even battling evil aliens and mad scientists that have infiltrated their ranks. All of this is illustrated in detailed photographs of Lego brick spaceships and stations. There\u2019s even instructions on how to build your own version of some of the vehicles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/legospace\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4833\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=4833\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/LEGOspace_8-9._web_400x241.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,241\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LEGOspace_8-9._web_400x241\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/LEGOspace_8-9._web_400x241.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4833\" alt=\"LEGOspace_8-9._web_400x241\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/LEGOspace_8-9._web_400x241.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/LEGOspace_8-9._web_400x241.jpg 400w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/LEGOspace_8-9._web_400x241-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Two pages from <a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/legospace\" target=\"_d\">LEGO Space<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=hobbyspace&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=1593275218&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book\u00a0LEGO Space\u00a0by Peter Reid and Tim Goddard :\u00a0Space Exploration Looks Even More Awesome in Lego &#8211; Wired Science The bulk of Reid and Goddard\u2019s book is devoted to a science-fiction exploration of mankind\u2019s potential future among the stars. The Lego mining astronauts of tomorrow find themselves building moon and Mars bases, working with intelligent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4832\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;LEGO Space&#8221; &#8211; new book on modeling space hardware<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future","category-space-models"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1fW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2641,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2641","url_meta":{"origin":4832,"position":0},"title":"NASA\/LEGO announce space and aircraft model contest","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA and LEGO announce a new space modeling contest: NASA Partners With the LEGO Group for Design and Build Contest WASHINGTON -- NASA and the LEGO Group are partnering to inspire the next generation of aerospace engineers by offering a new design competition. 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