The mission of the Brick Space Agency is to showcase all the amazing LEGO space modelsĀ and their creators. Discover, build, and share your own fleet of rockets, launch vehicles, spacecraft, and space stations!
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LC-5 Launch Complex 5 Cape Canaveral
Launch site at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Site of the Mercury-Redstone 3 flight, America's first manned space flight with Astronaut Alan Shepard. LEGO LC-5 model with 976 bricks
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Apollo Recovery Mission / Helicopter 66
During the Apollo 8, Apollo 10, and Apollo 11 missions, Helicopter Sikorsky Sea King SH-3D with number 66 was the primary recovery vehicle which hoisted returning astronauts from the spacecraft command modules.
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X-15
American manned spaceplane used for hypersonic research. Conducted tests for ballistic flight, winged reentry, and gliding recovery. The X-15 was intended to evolve to a manned orbital spacecraft until the urgent need for the Mercury and Gemini programs surfaced. Research from the X-15 eventually led to the...
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Atlas LV3 Agena-D
Standardized Atlas plus Agena D used for a variety of NASA and Air Force programs, including Ranger, Mariner, Midas, and Gambit.
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Atlas 10-D “Big Joe 1”
First launch of the Mercury program. Launched a boilerplate Mercury capsule to test the ablative heat shield, afterbody heating, and reentry dynamics.
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Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) for Apollo
NASA vehicle used to quarantine astronauts returning from the first four Apollo lunar missions. An Airstream trailer was converted by Melpar, Inc. to house three crew, a physician, and an engineer.
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Titan Mover Trains
The Titan project also had a twin track linking the assembly buildings and launch pads; specially adapted EMD SW-8 switchers were used to move the rocket.
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Astrovan Apollo Era
Transport for Apollo astronauts to launchpad. Modified Cortez motorhome.
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Atlas LV-3B (Mercury-Atlas Launch Vehicle)
First American orbital human-rated launch vehicle. Used to launch the Mercury capsule to low Earth orbit.
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Juno I
Four stage rocket derived from the Jupiter-C sounding rocket. After the "Sputnik Crisis" and the failure of the Vanguard program, a Juno I rocket was used to launch America's first satellite, Explorer 1.
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Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle
America's first crewed suborbital launch vehicle. Member of the Redstone rocket family derived from the U.S. Army's Redstone missile and the Jupiter-C LV. Used for six suborbital Mercury flights carrying astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom.
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Little Joe II
American rocket developed to test the Apollo spacecraft Launch Escape System and the Command Module parachute recovery system in abort mode. Smallest of the four launch vehicles used in the Apollo program.