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"Christina Hitchcock" <chitchco@gmu.edu> writes:
> Russia takes space advertising lead -SPACE.COM
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> Cosmonaut plays with the LEGO Mars Planet
> Protector toy while aboard the ISS.
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> http://www.msnbc.com/news/580964.asp
From that article:
] The plastic used to manufacture Lego's toy robots - and the
] glue that holds them together - also were tested before the Mars
] Planet Protector and 300 miniature "aliens" were given a green light
] for the Soyuz flight to the station.
Um... GLUE???!! Something tells me that isn't a model off the TRU
shelves... Wouldn't surprise me if they also used some other form of
plastic besides the standard ABS. Probably the most expensive Lego
set ever made.
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
(formerly known as hermit@bayview.com)
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| (...) I bet the bricks are indeed standard ABS. I assume that glue was used to prevent stray LEGO bits from floating about the cabin. LEGO uses glue on the Miniland structures as LEGOLand and the ones sent on museum tours. -- Jeff (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jun-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.space)
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