Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model

For 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has looked out into the Universe. The new Lego Icons Hubble Space Telescope (set no. 21312, in 2017.Credit: LEGO/collectSPACE.com Hubble Space Telescope Lego models, roughly to scale, including the new Lego Icons set (at right). Credit: LEGO/collectSPACE.com Hubble Space Telescope Lego models, roughly to scale, including the new Lego Icons set (at right). The real Hubble Space Telescope was launched on the space shuttle Discovery and deployed by the STS-31 crew in 1990.