
The inner box contains the instruction manual, sticker sheets, and bag numbers 1-8, while bags 9-17 and the unnumbered oversized parts bag are loose in the main box. The inner box helps the contents stay distributed during shipping, and I’m happy to say that LEGO has finally figured out sorting the bags by number.

Unpack the hefty box and you’ll find a white inner box and a handful of bags, par for the course with LEGO’s top-end sets these days. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews. The LEGO Group sent The Brothers Brick an early copy of this set for review. Today we’re going to dive in with a full, hands-on review of this massive spaceplane. The new shuttle set is part of the Creator Expert lineup and will be available starting April 1, retailing for US $199.99 | CAN $269.99 | UK £169.99. LEGO is also celebrating 2021 being the 40th anniversary of the first shuttle flight. 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery has 2,354 pieces and includes both the Discovery orbiter and the Hubble Space Telescope that Discovery launched on the STS-31 mission in April 1990 (the same year as LEGO’s first Space Shuttle set, 1682 Space Shuttle Launch). The latest set from LEGO is the largest and most detailed yet. Notable NASA missions launched from the Starliner launch pad include the Viking robots that landed on Mars, the Voyager spacecraft that toured the outer planets, the New Horizons probe that flew past Pluto, and the Curiosity rover currently traversing Mars.LEGO Space Shuttles are a mainstay of the brand’s space themes, with the company having produced well more than a dozen models across a variety of scales, themes, and degrees of accuracy. But there’s something about the iconic design of NASA’s black-and-white reusable space plane that captures our imaginations and keeps drawing us back.

Space Launch Complex 41 has been used only for non-crew spacecraft to this point, hosting Titan rockets beginning in 1965 and then the Atlas V since 2002.The crew access arm and white room, which are about 169 feet (51.5 meters) above the launch pad surface of Space Launch Complex 41, are where crews will begin boarding the Starliner before launch. Starliner’s crew access tower is the first new access tower to be built along Florida’s Space Coast since the Apollo era.In addition to both an uncrewed and a crewed flight test, NASA has ordered six Boeing crew rotation missions to the International Space Station aboard the Starliner, which will be Boeing's first commercial human spaceflight missions.

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Boeing-developed training devices provide Starliner crews extensive training on the most technologically advanced, proven and integrated systems, ensuring astronauts learn how to handle any situation that could arise in the harsh environment of space, even with a spacecraft that is designed to be autonomous.An innovative weldless design eliminates the structural risks of traditional welds, and it also reduces mass and production time.Wireless internet will assist with crew communication, entertainment and docking with the International Space Station.The pusher abort system provides safe crew escape throughout the launch and ascent phase of the mission.The Starliner’s economic impact can be seen across the United States, with more than 425 suppliers in 37 states.The Starliner is a reusable spacecraft that combines a proven capsule architecture, materials and subsystem technologies with 21st century innovations.
