Lego is selling a 'Women of NASA' set featuring 4 female scientists, engineers, and astronauts
Lego Ideas
The $24.99 kit goes on sale November 1 - just in time for the holiday gift-giving season - and builds on a laudable trend of selling toys that are more inclusive of women.
"Women of NASA" features four minifigurines of pioneering women from the space agency: astronauts Sally Ride and Mae Jemison, astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, and computer scientist Margaret Hamilton.
Each minifig will also come with a special backdrop related to their historic work at NASA, including the space shuttle Challenger and the Hubble Space Telescope.
Maia Weinstock, a deputy editor at MIT News, submitted her idea for the kit in July 2016 to the company's to the Lego Ideas community, where members create and vote on new set plans. If and when Lego picks an idea from the site, submitters get a 1% cut of sales and licensing revenue.
Weinstock's submission got more than 10,000 votes, triggering an automatic review by Lego staff - and they decided to manufacture and sell it. (Lego's giant Saturn V moon rocket set, released in June, came about the same way.)
Here's a close-up look at the kit and what it includes.
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