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Lego Ideas (formerly known as Lego Cuusoo and stylized in start case) is a website run by Chaordix and The Lego Group, which allows users to submit ideas for Lego products to be turned into potential sets available commercially, with the original designer receiving 1% of the royalties. [2]
Lego Ideas released a non-licensed set based on the Classic Space line in 2014, the 21109 Exo Suit, which includes two minifigures in green suits printed with the Classic Space logo. One of the main characters in The Lego Movie and its sequel, The Lego Movie 2 , Benny (voiced by Charlie Day ), is a blue Classic Space minifigure with notable ...
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight is a 2016 non-fiction book by journalist Julian Guthrie about the origins of the X Prize Foundation and Peter Diamandis, the first X Prize, the Ansari X Prize and Anousheh Ansari, the entrants into that suborbital spaceflight competition, and the winning team, Mojave Aerospace Ventures of Vulcan ...
In 2008, Virgin Galactic ordered two White Knight Two vehicles. [6] Together, WK2 and SS2 were to form the basis for Virgin Galactic's fleet of suborbital spaceplanes.. In November 2010, The Spaceship Company had announced that it planned to build at least three additional White Knight Two aircraft and an additional five SpaceShipTwo rocket planes, the aircraft to be built by Virgin after the ...
The Scaled Composites Model 316, [2] known as SpaceShipOne, was a spaceplane designed to: . Carry three humans (one of them a pilot) in a sea-level pressurized cabin.; Be propelled by rocket from an altitude of 15 km (9.3 mi) to in excess of 100 km (62 mi).
A number of other 3D-printed spacecraft assemblies have been ground-tested, including high-temperature, high-pressure rocket engine combustion chambers [1] and the entire mechanical spaceframe and integral propellant tanks for a small satellite. [2] A 3D printed rocket engine successfully launched a rocket to space in 2017, [3] and to orbit in ...
The rocket had a diameter of 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) for the first stage and 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in) for the second stage and payload fairing. [ 4 ] On the 24th of October 2019, the company announced plans to develop a three-stage variant that would be capable of launching 100 kg (220 lb) to the Moon , 70 kg (150 lb) to Venus , or 50 kg (110 lb) to Mars .
Brian Walker is a toy inventor from Bend, Oregon [1] who is known for attempting to build his own rocket and as the inventor of several toys, namely the air bazooka. His rocket is known as Project R.U.S.H., which stands for Rapid Up Super High. It was intended to be fueled by hydrogen peroxide and equipped with parachutes for use when landing ...