[ti:New Lego Set Honors 'Women of NASA']
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[00:03.76]Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, Nancy Grace Roman and Margaret Hamilton
[00:12.44]are important names in American space exploration.
[00:19.68]Jemison is an astronaut, as was Ride.
[00:24.76]Scientists Roman and Hamilton worked with NASA, the American space agency.
[00:34.16]Each woman is receiving a very high honor.
[00:38.68]No, they are not being admitted into a space "Hall of Fame."
[00:45.40]But this honor might be even better:
[00:49.36]they are becoming Lego action figures.
[00:54.76]Thanks to the work of a Lego fan
[00:57.96]and editor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
[01:03.32]the four women will be represented in miniature toy form starting on November 1.
[01:12.68]That is when people will be able to purchase
[01:16.64]the first-ever "Women of NASA" Lego set.
[01:22.81]The path to Lego fame began in the summer of 2016.
[01:30.24]Maia Weinstock is the deputy editor of MIT News,
[01:36.28]a publication of the famous university.
[01:40.80]She is also a Lego fan.
[01:45.20]According to a story in the publication,
[01:48.72]Weinstock has an interesting hobby.
[01:52.40]She makes Lego figures representing important people in the history of MIT.
[02:01.64]But, most recently, she decided not to limit herself to MIT.
[02:09.00]Weinstock thought bigger and submitted the names
[02:13.92]of five women to Lego's "Ideas" website.
[02:20.12]She called her submission "Ladies rock outer space!"
[02:26.16]and described how important those women were to U.S. space exploration.
[02:34.68]As soon as 10,000 people expressed their support for the set,
[02:41.52]Lego announced it would produce it.
[02:46.04]In February, Lego said Weinstock's set would be the next Ideas set.
[02:55.00]And on Wednesday, the toy-maker announced the set would be available in November.
[03:03.92]The fifth woman in Weinstock's proposal was Katherine Johnson,
[03:09.68]an African-American mathematician made famous by the recent film "Hidden Figures."
[03:18.32]However, Lego could not agree with Johnson and her family about the look of the figure.
[03:26.52]So, it was not produced.
[03:29.16]The set also includes representations of the Hubble space telescope
[03:36.45]and the Challenger space shuttle.
[03:39.68]Many Lego fans are excited by the news.
[03:45.20]One Twitter user named Beth had a one-word reaction: "Woohooooooooo!!"
[03:53.52]And that's What's Trending Today.
[03:57.72]I'm Caty Weaver.
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