{"id":65981,"date":"2026-04-22T09:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/65981\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:47:11","slug":"bricks-and-spaceships-a-project-hail-mary-lego-minifig-has-made-it-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/65981\/","title":{"rendered":"Bricks and spaceships: a \u2018Project Hail Mary\u2019 LEGO minifig has made it to space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last month, childhood dreams around the world were made real \u2013 as a LEGO\u00ae minifigure depicting an astronaut actually flew into the galaxy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Firmly attached to a balloon-powered platform, this tiny plastic model of Ryan Gosling\u2019s character in Amazon MGM Studios’ film Project Hail Mary (2026) \u2013 as well as his spaceship and alien friend Rocky \u2013 floated their way up until 114,790 ft (34,988 m) above Gwynedd County, UK<\/a>, on 20 March. That\u2019s nearly a 22 mi (35 km)-long journey!<\/p>\n

For over eight hours, the minifigure spun amongst the blackness of space, witnessing the blue curvature of the planet and its cotton-like clouds, before falling back down to the green grass back on Earth. Once on solid ground, the tiny toy was safely recovered \u2013 making this incredible trip the highest altitude launch and retrieval of a LEGO\u00ae set in Guinness World Records history.<\/p>\n

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The bricks\u2019 brave ascent was organized by aerospace agency Sent Into Space, in partnership with LEGO and the minds behind Project Hail Mary (2026). And on 13 April, the visionary directors of the film \u2013 Phil Lord and Christopher Miller \u2013 were presented with an official Guinness World Records certificate in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<\/a> for their out-of-this-world work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly proud to have partnered with Sony Pictures Releasing UK [the UK film distributor] and have played our part in setting a brand new world record,\u201d said Dr Chris Rose, Head of Projects at Sent Into Space.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery one of our projects is an exciting undertaking, but getting the chance to incorporate a LEGO\u00ae build into the spacecraft development process made this one a whole heap of fun for the entire Sent Into Space team.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cCongratulations to\u00a0the film for accomplishing its ambitious mission, and we hope the visuals of the LEGO\u00ae Hail Mary in space will help inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers and astronauts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more stories about record-breaking films in our dedicated Arts and Entertainment section!<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, childhood dreams around the world were made real \u2013 as a LEGO\u00ae minifigure depicting an astronaut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6050],"tags":[36285,36284,4248,6051,36283,6412,36286],"class_list":{"0":"post-65981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lego","8":"tag-guinness-world-records","9":"tag-highest-altitude-launch-and-retrieval-of-a-lego-set","10":"tag-lego","11":"tag-lego-group","12":"tag-lego-in-space","13":"tag-project-hail-mary","14":"tag-project-hail-mary-guinness-world-records"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116447729823367722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}