{"id":44091,"date":"2025-12-04T20:35:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lego-announces-nasa-artemis-sls-rocket-set-to-lift-off-literally-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T20:35:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:35:45","slug":"lego-announces-nasa-artemis-sls-rocket-set-to-lift-off-literally-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lego-announces-nasa-artemis-sls-rocket-set-to-lift-off-literally-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego announces NASA Artemis SLS rocket set to lift off (literally) in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you top a highly detailed scale model of NASA\u2019s new moon-bound rocket and its support tower? If you\u2019re Lego, you make it so it can actually lift off.<\/p>\n

Lego\u2019s NASA Artemis Space Launch System Rocket, part of its Technic line of advanced building sets, will land on store shelves for $60 on January 1, 2026, and then \u201cblast off\u201d from kitchen tables, office desks and living room floors. The 632-piece set climbs skyward, separating from its expendable stages along the way, until the Orion crew spacecraft and its European Service Module top out the motion on their way to the moon\u2014or wherever your imagination carries it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe educational LEGO Technic set shows the moment a rocket launches, in three distinct stages,\u201d reads the product description on Lego\u2019s website. \u201cTurn the crank to see the solid rocket boosters separate from the core stage, which then also detaches. Continue turning to watch the upper stage with its engine module, Orion spacecraft and launch abort system separate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crank it up<\/h2>\n
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\"Illustration\"<\/p>\n

The lid of the mobile launcher opens to reveal the gears that set the Lego Technic NASA Artemis Space Launch System Rocket into motion.<\/p>\n

Credit:
\n LEGO<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

The new set captures all the major milestones of the first eight and a half minutes of an Artemis mission (with the exception of the jettison of the abort system tower, which on the real rocket occurs before the Orion separates from the core stage). Lego worked with NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) to ensure the overall accuracy of the display.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the way up, there is sound. You can hear it\u2014it is really noisy, the rocket,\u201d said Olaf Kegger, the set\u2019s designer at Lego, at an unveiling of his creation. He added that there is no sound when the motion is reversed, as the real SLS, \u201cof course, does not go [back] down like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The mobile launcher base has a flip-open lid to reveal the many gears attached to the crank to enable the model to move. The platform also supports an information panel and four astronaut nanofigures representing the four crew members who will launch aboard Orion.<\/p>\n

On the Artemis II mission, scheduled for no earlier than February 5 (and no later than April), NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency, will become the first people to fly on Orion and the SLS, on their way to becoming the first humans to fly by the moon since the Apollo program more than 50 years ago.<\/p>\n

Lego SLS<\/h2>\n

Designed for space enthusiasts aged nine years and up, the Lego Technic NASA Artemis Space Launch System Rocket (set 42221) assembles to form a model measuring more than 27.5 inches high, 6.5 inches long, and 3 inches wide when the rocket is on top (70 by 16 by 8 cm).<\/p>\n

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\"Illustration<\/p>\n

The Lego Technic NASA Artemis Space Launch System Rocket also includes nanoscale astronauts representing the Orion spacecraft crew.<\/p>\n

Credit:
\n LEGO<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Lego previously released and still sells the Icons NASA Artemis Space Launch System (set 10341), which is much larger and more detailed; the finished rocket and mobile launch tower stand just as high as the new Technic model flies, but it\u2019s built from nearly six times as many pieces.<\/p>\n

Lego\u2019s City line also included an SLS-type vehicle as part of the Rocket Launch Center set (60351), but it was simpler in design, as it\u2019s intended for a young audience.<\/p>\n

The Denmark-based Lego Group has a long history of representing space exploration through its toys and first collaborated with NASA during the 30-year Space Shuttle Program. The Artemis I mission in 2022 carried four Lego minifigures on its month-long trip around the moon as part of an educational outreach campaign.<\/p>\n

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How do you top a highly detailed scale model of NASA\u2019s new moon-bound rocket and its support tower? If you\u2019re Lego, you make it so it can actually lift off. Lego\u2019s NASA Artemis Space Launch System Rocket, part of its Technic line of advanced building sets, will land on store shelves for $60 on January […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44095,"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":[9517,304,4884,625,190,136,624,4849,4029,787,9493,9494,9518,9519],"class_list":["post-44091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-9517","tag-artemis","tag-lego","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-rocket","tag-sls","tag-space-exploration","tag-space-history","tag-space-launch-system","tag-space-collectible","tag-space-memorabilia","tag-space-toy","tag-technic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44091"}],"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=44091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}