For adults, Lego has wonderful and realistic models of real-life NASA properties. Our favorites include the Space Shuttle Discovery and the Lunar Lander. For younger builders, City sets like the ...

But the real stars of the set were the five included minifigures. We had the stoic mission commander, the astronaut with a jetpack (because spacewalks are cooler with a jetpack, duh), and a whole ...

Lego Shuttle Adventure (2010 ... Individually they're all pretty neat: the sets depict a black hole, a lunar eclipse, a rocket launch and a comet over an observatory. But it's when they're ...