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: Just one day after its official release, Lunar Outpost celebrated the rollout of its first Lego set with a pop-up display at Space Center Houston. The Lego Technic Lunar Outpost® Moon Rover Space Vehicle features a futuristic rover, a resource plant and a bonus replica of the company's MAPP rover, which landed on the moon in March. The 1,082-piece kit was inspired by Lunar Outpost's plans for many more moon rover missions.
: A three-time cosmonaut who launched with the world's first self-funded space tourist and later led Kazakhstan's national space agency, Talgat Musabayev died on Monday (Aug. 4) at the age of 74. Chosen to be a cosmonaut in 1990, Musabayev completed two stays on the Mir space station in 1994 and 1998, and then in 2001 spent a week at the International Space Station with first spaceflight participant Dennis Tito.
