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Lego decided to create a NASA women toy set with Katherine Johnson and Mae Jemison. The toy set will be a commemoration of five women who played a pivotal role in the Unites States space program.
Lego doesn’t have a set date, but the women will be out late 2017 or early 2018.
The 98-year old Katherine Johnson is featured in the toy set. If you recall,
Katherine Johnson was one of the women who was portrayed in the Oscar-nominated movie “Hidden Figures.”
She is one of the African-American physicist and mathematician who contributed to the U.S. aeronautics and space programs before the computers. In 2015, President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Sally Ride is one of the other women in the Lego set. Sally was the first American woman in space in 1983. She came third behind two USSR cosmonauts and was the youngest American astronaut when she went up when she was 32-years old.
Mae Jemison, is another woman in the toy set too.
Mae became the first African-American to travel into space in 1992. Mae went to medical school and then had a brief general practice and then served in the Peace Corp when NASA selected her.
The two others are Margaret Hamilton and Nancy Roman.
Margaret Hamilton was a computer scientist, systems engineer and business owner. She developed an on-board flight software for the Apollo Space program. In 2016, President Obama awarded Margaret the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Nancy Roman was an astronomer and one of the first female executives at NASA. Nancy is known as the “Mother of Hubble” because of her role in planning the Hubble Space Telescope.
This idea stemmed from science writer and researcher Maia Weinstock. She was the winner of Lego Ideas competition… she told Lego that they should “highlight” prominent female scientists, engineers and astronauts.
“The reaction has been overwhelming. Messages of congratulations and excitement at the prospect of this set actually being on store shelves have been pouring in,” said Weinstock.
Weinstock said, “Girls, in that they can and should be engineers, scientists, and mathematicians, and boys, in that they internalize t an early age that these careers are for everyone, not only men.”
Via:nypost
