Mar 1, 2017

Toy company Lego to produce Women of Nasa set

The Danish toy company is making a new set of five figurines, based on real female scientists, engineers and astronauts. The design, created by US science writer Maia Weinstock, won the Lego Ideas competition. "As a science editor and writer, with a strong personal interest for space exploration as well as the history of women in science and engineering, Maia Weinstock's Women of Nasa project was a way for her to celebrate accomplished women in the Stem professions," she said. Other contenders in the latest competition included Lego scenes from televisions shows The Addams Family and The Little House on the Prairie, a Lego Lamborghini and a Lego Large Hadron Collider. One Lego fan, who runs Jay's Bricks Blog, said the Nasa set was a worthy winner.

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