A History Of LEGO Space Exploration

*Set 497 Galaxy Explorer is the first LEGO Space set from 1979.*

It was 1978 when Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen had a new idea to add themes to the LEGO system. One of these is the LEGO Space theme. The other two were the Castle theme and the Town theme. The theme is inspired by existing space technology as it was in the ’60 and ’70. Because they looked a lot at these techniques the first LEGO Space sets in the beginning mainly consisted of spaceships, rockets, moon landing vehicles and space stations.

The release of these sets means for LEGO that they also have to add a lot of new elements to their assortment. For example, they bring out saucers and antennas for the first time. For the space theme LEGO uses a recognizable color scheme, namely light grey, blue and the then new color transparent yellow… read more >