Friday News Snippet: Women of NASA
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Women of NASA Lego set – I saw this news story the other day and got all excited. The $25 kit will go on sale November 1st and features four figurines of “pioneering women of the space agency: the astronauts Sally Ride and Mae Jemison, the astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, and the computer scientist Margaret Hamilton.”
The idea is the brainchild of Maia Weinstock and got more than 10,000 votes after it was submitted to Lego’s Ideas Community in 2016. One person who is not represented is Margaret Johnson. Hopefully whatever approval is required to move forward on that will be obtained at some point.
I am 58 years old, a child of the 60’s and 70’s space programs, and I am strangely attracted to this Legos kit!
Very nifty! Thanks for sharing the link, Jayne.
From what I could find, it looks like Katherine Johnson personally opted out of the set. Which is too bad, but her choice.