Lego is celebrating some of the amazing women of NASA with new set of figures

Re:Lego is celebrating some of the amazing women of NASA wit... by komali2 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @02:32PM (#15501675)

Aww, no Christa McAuliffe? I used to go to an elementary school named after her. The principal was well enough into space stuff that he managed to get a bunch of the local amateur stargazers to donate their telescopes for a stargazing night. I got to see the rings of saturn for the first time at age 7, it was awesome :)

Wish there was a lego piece for her, she was the perfect link between youth education and space. I wonder if NASA would ever consider sending another teacher into space.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_McAuliffe

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Re:Lego is celebrating some of the amazing women of NASA wit... by smallworld99 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @03:58PM (#15502410)

Hey, I had a friend who went to that same school! We had an econ class in high school that had trivia at the beginning of every class. One day, the answer to a cryptic question was Christa McAuliffe. I asked my friend how on earth he knew that and he mentioned that he used to go to a school named after her. Is it in Green Bay, WI?

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Re:Lego is celebrating some of the amazing women of NASA wit... by komali2 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @04:23PM (#15502618)

Haha yup. Well, Bellvue but it's probably the same city by now. Small world.

Glad your friend escaped Green Bay as well ;)

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Re:Lego is celebrating some of the amazing women of NASA wit... by smallworld99 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @05:43PM (#15503468)

Oh, unfortunately he did not, but I did. :) Michigan now, though, so not too far.

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