posted 07-18-2019 06:00 AM               

LEGO exhibits life-size moonwalker model at Apollo 50 Festival

Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 spacesuit has gone to pieces. LEGO pieces, that is.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, a team of LEGO Master Builders spent nearly 300 hours designing and building a life-size model of the lunar module pilot and the iconic A7L spacesuit that he wore on July 20, 1969 at Tranquility Base. Built from 44,051 LEGO bricks, the model debuted to the public on Thursday (July 18) at the Apollo 50 Festival hosted by the Smithsonian and NASA on the National Mall in Washington, DC.