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Check out all the authentic features, including the opening payload bay, retractable landing gear, opening cockpit, moving elevons, space arm, plus 5 seats for the crew.Enjoy hours of immersive building as you create both the Space Shuttle Discovery and the Hubble Space Telescope from NASA’s 1990 STS-31 mission.Take a journey of exploration with this LEGO® NASA Space Shuttle Discovery (10283) model building kit for adults.
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The LEGO® 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery set is part of a series of buildable models for adults, offering an escape from everyday life with display pieces to admire. The multiple display stands let you display the space shuttle model and telescope individually or together. The telescope features movable solar panels and an aperture door. The cockpit opens to reveal flight and mid-decks with seats for 5 crew members. Adjust the elevons, engage the landing gear on reentry and deploy the robotic arm. Open the payload bay to deploy the Hubble Telescope on its mission to explore the cosmos. Packed with features, this build marks the amazing accomplishments of Discovery. With 2,354 pieces, this engaging challenge lets you build the Space Shuttle Discovery, plus the Hubble Space Telescope, launched on NASA’s STS-31 mission in 1990. The set has been added to the LEGO 2021 checklist.Celebrate the wonders of space with this LEGO® 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery model building set for adults. Hubble is definitely the highlight of my career.’ ‘Looking at the model, it was great to reminisce about my experiences in space launching the telescope for the first time. ‘I was thrilled to see the space shuttle in LEGO form, and was very impressed by the amount of intricate detail they have managed to recreate from the module where we used to sleep and eat through to what we called the “milk stalls” on the telescope,’ said former astronaut Dr. This was without a doubt the most challenging part of this model – trying to couple the front and main landing gear without removing any space from the payload bay and without compromising the structure of the model.’ Add functional landing gear and you have a real puzzle. ‘Generally, in a LEGO model we can rely on the size to accommodate the structure that holds the whole set together, but on the Discovery Space Shuttle we needed to create a smooth exterior and an interior capable of holding the payload. In the real vehicle every inch of space is used in ingenious ways,’ said LEGO Model Designer Milan Madge. ‘The Space Shuttle is the most complex vehicle ever made, so as you can imagine, translating this into LEGO was an exciting challenge. It can be stowed in the payload bay ready for builders to recreate its deployment.
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The set also builds the Hubble Space Telescope, with its hinged mirror housing and new gold foil solar arrays. Inside there is a crew cabin with the five seats for the astronauts, the flight and robotic arm (Remote Manipulator System) control panels and the space shuttle’s storage lockers. Other authentic touched include the engines, with three main engines for launch and smaller engines that are used for in-orbit manoeuvres. The model includes functional landing gear, payload bay doors and reflective stickers depict the cooling radiators.