Space Before Space
Although it would take a few more years to solidify into a specific subset of its plans, Lego’s flirtation with space exploration began in the early 1970s. The first Lego Space Rocket set was made available in 1964, but it was the 1973 Rocket Base and 1975 Moon Landing—the latter with three brick-built astronauts, in the era before the minifigure was first developed—that really set the stage for Lego’s plans in space. They also established a very important thing that we’ll see throughout the next four decades of Lego Space: blue is very much this theme’s color.
