As someone involved with the actual Artemis program, I was excited when I heard about this Lego set. While I am no longer a Lego builder, luckily my daughter is. She did a great job building it and didn't have any complaints about the instructions. Like others have noted, she did find putting together the launch tower to be a bit repetitive. But it came out great, and now all the people I work with want one also.
This for me to reflect on and use to show people what parts I’ve worked on ..all in all a great product easy to build that is pretty close if not exact to the real thing.
This space-age set was bought for my husband...one of two LEGO experts in my household. Both he and I are children of the space age and have never lost our fascination for the outer reaches and the future thereof. This set lets us both have a taste of NASA's future and humanity's longing in the stars.
LEGO made me an engineer, then I worked on Artemis
on May 25, 2024
Posted by: Erik T
LEGO #1682 ("Space Shuttle Launch") is the first set I can distinctly remember building. My dad helped; I was probably five years old. Twenty-odd years later, I had the great professional honor of serving as a design engineer on the Space Shuttle solid rocket motors. This design effort also supported the five-segment motors that now power the Space Launch System that launches Artemis. My own backstory aside, this was an incredible pleasure. 10/10, would recommend to any space geek with the requisite patience and exacting eye (it's obviously not a little-kid build experience). As soon as I can figure out how to transport it safely, it's going to work to live on top of my filing cabinet.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Response from LEGOBy Sam, LEGO® Customer Service, May 26, 2024
What an incredible story! We love hearing when our sets have inspired people to follow their dreams and turn their passions into doing what they love every day. Thank you for your review and for sharing your memories!
Although it has some repetivnes when building I really enjoyed putting it together. My usual go to sets are UCS it was a pleasant change. Very detailed.