{"id":18760,"date":"2017-10-18T22:32:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T14:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lego-shows-off-its-women-of-nasa-toy-set-without-hidden-figures-star\/"},"modified":"2017-10-18T22:32:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T14:32:25","slug":"lego-shows-off-its-women-of-nasa-toy-set-without-hidden-figures-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lego-shows-off-its-women-of-nasa-toy-set-without-hidden-figures-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego shows off its \u2018Women of NASA\u2019 toy set, without \u2018Hidden Figures\u2019 star"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_370346\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-370346\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-370346\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171018-women-630x490.jpg\" alt=\"Lego &quot;Women of NASA&quot;\" width=\"630\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171018-women-630x490.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171018-women-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171018-women.jpg 1246w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-370346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lego\u2019s \u201cWomen of NASA\u201d set of minifigures includes Margaret Hamilton, Nancy Grace Roman, Sally Ride and Mae Jemison \u2014 but not Katherine Johnson, who was featured in \u201cHidden Figures.\u201d (Lego Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seven and a half months after its selection, Lego unveiled a set of minifigures celebrating NASA women researchers and explorers, due to go on sale just in time for the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>The toy set follows up on a suggestion from science writer Maia Weinstock, but one of Weinstock\u2019s nominees wasn\u2019t included: NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, whose life story figures prominently in the Oscar-nominated movie \u201cHidden Figures\u201d and the book on which it was based.<\/p>\n<p>The four women getting the Lego treatment are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Margaret Hamilton, now 81, who developed the onboard flight software for the Apollo missions while working at MIT under contract with NASA in the 1960s.<\/li>\n<li>Mae Jemison, who became the first African-American woman in space in 1992 during a science mission aboard the space shuttle Endeavour. She turned 61 on Tuesday.<\/li>\n<li>Sally Ride (1951-2012), who was the first American woman in space thanks to a 1983 mission on the space shuttle Challenger, and went on to create educational programs focused on getting girls into science.<\/li>\n<li>Nancy Grace Roman, 92, an astronomer and NASA executive who is known as the \u201cMother of Hubble\u201d for her role in planning the Hubble Space Telescope.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The proposal bubbled up through&nbsp;a Lego program that solicits ideas for customized toy figures, and then turns some of the top ideas into actual play sets.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_370359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-370359\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-370359\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171018-women-set-630x392.jpg\" alt=\"Lego Women of NASA\" width=\"630\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171018-women-set-630x392.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171018-women-set.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-370359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lego\u2019s toy set shows Margaret Hamilton with a stack of books representing listings of Apollo Guidance Computer source code, Nancy Grace Roman next to a model of the Hubble Space Telescope, and astronauts Mae Jemison and Sally Ride alongside a space shuttle. (Lego Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lego said it looked into including Johnson, who helped work out the trajectories for key NASA spaceflights such as John Glenn\u2019s history-making orbital trip in 1962, but couldn\u2019t get the necessary permission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order for us to move forward with a partner we need to obtain approval from all key people, which was not possible in this case,\u201d the company said in a statement cited by Gizmodo and The Verge. \u201cWe naturally fully respect this decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, Weinstock indicated that Johnson and her family decided against giving their approval. \u201cEach woman \/ her family had to sign off on being depicted in the final product. 4 of the original 5 chose to participate,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m extremely proud to know that the final product will help children and adults around the world learn about some of the pioneering scientists and engineers who helped make the U.S. space program what it is today,\u201d Weinstock said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, it would have been fantastic to see the final product include my original frame and also the fourth vignette,\u201d she continued. \u201cBut my overall vision is still very much alive with Lego\u2019s final design, and the builds have been beautifully enhanced thanks to the creative team in Billund&nbsp;\u2014 where, I might add, the lead designers on this project were all women!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The set goes on sale Nov. 1 at a retail price of $24.99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lego\u2019s \u201cWomen of NASA\u201d set of minifigures includes Margaret Hamilton, Nancy Grace Roman, Sally Ride and Mae Jemison \u2014 but not Katherine Johnson, who was featured in \u201cHidden Figures.\u201d (Lego Photo) Seven and a half months after its selection, Lego unveiled a set of minifigures celebrating NASA women researchers and explorers, due to go on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5269,4884,21,4885,4824],"class_list":["post-18760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hidden-figures","tag-lego","tag-space","tag-toys","tag-women-in-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}