{"id":5789,"date":"2013-12-21T20:19:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T20:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5789"},"modified":"2013-12-21T20:19:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T20:19:10","slug":"mars-curiosity-rover-available-from-lego-on-new-years-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5789","title":{"rendered":"Mars Curiosity rover available from LEGO on New Years Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2812\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned previously<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0the Mars Curiosity rover\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lego.cuusoo.com\/ideas\/view\/3431\" target=\"_blank\">LEGO model<\/a>\u00a0designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/lego.cuusoo.com\/profile\/Perijove\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Pakbaz<\/a>\u00a0, who had worked as an engineer on the real Curiosity rover at JPL, would become a commercial product from LEGO.\u00a0The project was part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lego.cuusoo.com\/\" target=\"_d\">LEGO\u00ae CUUSOO<\/a>\u00a0hobbyists program, which has seen some of their other models become production products for LEGO as well.<\/p>\n<p>This past week\u00a0LEGO announced that the model will hit the store shelves on January 1st:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lego.cuusoo.com\/2013\/12\/18\/lego-nasa-mars-curiosity-rover\/\" target=\"_d\">LEGO\u00ae NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Available January 1st \u2013 The Official LEGO\u00ae CUUSOO Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/24031-mars-rover-curiosity-lego-release.html\" target=\"_d\">Mars Curiosity Rover LEGO Model Set for New Year&#8217;s Day Release &#8211; Space.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video interview with\u00a0Stephen:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mmH_Gh1lRCo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned previously\u00a0that\u00a0the Mars Curiosity rover\u00a0LEGO model\u00a0designed by Stephen Pakbaz\u00a0, who had worked as an engineer on the real Curiosity rover at JPL, would become a commercial product from LEGO.\u00a0The project was part of the\u00a0LEGO\u00ae CUUSOO\u00a0hobbyists program, which has seen some of their other models become production products for LEGO as well. This past week\u00a0LEGO &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5789\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mars Curiosity rover available from LEGO on New Years Day<\/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":[22,78,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mars","category-space-models"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1vn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4744,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4744","url_meta":{"origin":5789,"position":0},"title":"Cygnus cargo spacecraft modeled in LEGO","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Orbital Sciences Cygnus module berthed successfully to the International Space Station yesterday. 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