Lego and Space Travel: A Photo Gallery

LEGO’s Hayabusa Asteroid Spacecraft Box

LEGO’s Hayabusa asteroid spacecraft went on sale in Japan on Friday, March 2, 2012. A limited number of the sets will be offered worldwide through the company’s website later this year.

LEGO Tatooine

LEGO also released this new Tatooine desert planet in its Star Wars line.

LEGO X-wing Starfighter

Among LEGO's new Star Wars offerings is this X-wing Starfighter.

That's No Moon, That's a LEGO Space Station

LEGO's version of the International Space Station built by astronauts living aboard the real orbiting complex.

LEGO Star Wars

LEGO unveiled a whole line of new Star Wars figurines and building kits this year at Toy Fair 2012.

Lego Man in Space

This still from a video uploaded to YouTube by Toronto 17-year-olds Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad shows their homemade balloon launch of a Lego minifigure into the stratosphere to catch views of near space.