Time-lapse video: Watch a guy at the natural sciences museum put together 2,000 piece LEGO rocket

The N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences will host Astronomy Days this Saturday and Sunday. The free event includes all kinds of presentations, displays and hands-on activities that focus on space exploration.

Posted 6:34 p.m. Jan 24, 2019 — Updated 6:34 p.m. Jan 24, 2019

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The N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences will host Astronomy Days this Saturday and Sunday. The free event includes all kinds of presentations, displays and hands-on activities that focus on space exploration.

And over at the museum, educational events specialist Hugo Romero-Sanchez decided to have a little fun as he preps for the big annual event. The museum filmed a time-lapse video of him building the LEGO version of the NASA Saturn V , the rocket that first launched humans to the Moon in 1969.

This meter-high model (~1:110 scale) includes three removable rocket stages, the lunar lander and orbiter, as well as three tiny astronaut microfigures, according to the museum. It's made up of a total of (yikes!) 1,969 pieces. Visitors will get to see the model up close during Astronomy Days this weekend. More information about the event is in this earlier blog post.

Check out Romero-Sanchez at work ...

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