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LEGO ISS Set Review And Thoughts

Sarah-Marie Cooper
11 min readMar 21, 2023

Creating a model of one of humanity’s greatest engineering achievements

A centered title reads “LEGO Set: International Space Station and beneath it are two rectangular images. The one to the left is a picture of the box of the LEGO International Space Station. The one to the right is a picture of the author’s completed set on her shelf which is black, creating a space-like atmosphere.
Image made by the author in Canva using her image of the box and the completed ISS set.

As a space and LEGO nerd, it’s a no-brainer that I would be on the lookout for LEGO space sets. I featured a few that I completed years ago in my first LEGO Diaries post, but I finally completed my International Space Station set and wanted to share my thoughts on it. The International Space Station is an amazing feat of human engineering that has allowed us to have a continuous human presence in space for over 20 years, allowing astronauts to perform critical science experiments that help us better understand space, microgravity’s effect on life (including us!), how our technology will perform in space both today and in the future, and more. If you wish to better understand the International Space Station including how big it is, feel free to check out my article below.

Like many other space nerds, I was very excited when it was revealed that LEGO would be releasing a LEGO Ideas set of the International Space Station. The chance to build a scale model of this amazing feat of…

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Sarah-Marie Cooper
Sarah-Marie Cooper

Written by Sarah-Marie Cooper

Author & Writer | Querying my YA Fantasy novel |Top Writer in Space | A little bit of everything: writing, science, personal growth, fiction, social criticism

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