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Lars Joe Hylding
Design Manager Specialist
Facts from the
LEGO
Designer
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For both the actual Lunar Lander and our LEGO
tribute, blueprints like these are the beginning of
every design process. This is how the design of the
original module was translated into LEGO bricks.
The golden bricks represent the foil that the
Lunar Lander was wrapped in, for thermal and
micrometeoroid protection. The two main elements
of the Lunar Lander are the ascent stage and the
descent stage. On the ascent stage, among other
things, I focused mostly on the "face" with the two
windows and the door. The ascent stage has a lot
of angles that I had to build in a more simplified
way do to the scale. On the descent stage, among
other things, I focused on capturing the octagon
shape, the legs, and the shiny foil.
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Did you
know...
...designed by MIT, the
computer on board
the Lunar Lander,
the Apollo Guidance
Computer (AGC),
provided the guidance,
navigation and control
of the spacecraft. The
computer's performance
was comparable to
first-generation home
computers available in
the late 1970s, but
is similar to a simple
calculator today.
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