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LEGO Figurines on Jupiter Probe

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Three LEGO figurines representing the Roman god Jupiter (right), his wife Juno (middle) and Galileo Galilei (left) as shown here are flying to Jupiter on NASA's Juno spacecraft.

LEGO Space Shuttle on Real NASA Shuttle

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A LEGO space shuttle, as pictured here, launched aboard NASA's real space shuttle Discovery.

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