Posted By Adam White on May 30, 2019 | 1 comment

With the reveal of the new LEGO® Creator Expert NASA 11 Apollo Lunar Lander, LEGO have sent over some fun Space-based LEGO facts. Since the early days of LEGO sets, space has featured heavily. From the much-loved Classic Space sets to more recent adventures such as the awesome Galaxy Squad range. Space has influenced a number of different themes over the years. The Classic Space logo is an instant nostalgic marker in whatever form it appears. So take a trip down memory lane with these fun LEGO Space facts.

LEGO Space Fun Facts:

• 21309 NASA Apollo Saturn V contains 1969 pieces in reference to the year of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
• 801 Space Rocket was the first LEGO set containing a spacecraft, launched in 1964.
• Red and white astronauts were among the first LEGO minifigures produced in 1978.

• Nineteen different subthemes have appeared in the LEGO Space range, including Classic, MTron and Ice Planet 2002.
• Alien Conquest is the only LEGO Space theme which focuses upon aliens invading Earth.
• The LEGO Group has produced more than twenty Space Shuttles, the smallest of which appears in 4124 Advent Calendar from 2001 and contains just 10 pieces!
• Three aluminium minifigures depicting Jupiter, Juno and Galileo were launched on board the NASA Juno spacecraft in 2011, travelling to Jupiter.

• The first LEGO Lunar Module was released in 1975 and included three brick-built astronauts.
• 7470 Space Shuttle Discovery – STS-31 represents a particular NASA mission which deployed the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit during 1990.
• Space Police II introduced the first LEGO Space minifigures with heads other than the classic smiling design in 1992.
• Desert planets appear on the packaging for each LEGO Space set released from 1978, when the theme began, until 1989.
• 10266 NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander is the sixth LEGO model of the Lunar Module. The same number of Lunar Modules have landed on the Moon! *
• Classic Space branding has appeared in nine different themes, including Friends, Collectable Minifigures and NEXO Knights.

• Blacktron has opposed every incarnation of the Space Police, albeit exclusively in 5981 Raid VPR during Space Police III.
• 497 Galaxy Explorer is among the most popular LEGO Space sets and was produced in 1979, ten years after the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969. Multiplying the four digits of 1969 gives a result of 486 and adding 11, representing Apollo 11, totals 497 which is the set number for Galaxy Explorer! **

* Apollo 11, Apollo 12, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16, Apollo 17 ** 1 x 9 x 6 x 9 = 486, 486 + 11 = 497 Galaxy Explorer