Photo: Andrew Liszewski/Gizmodo One of the best ways to learn is to study under someone who’s already highly skilled, and when it comes to building with Lego, the official sets are a treasure trove of knowledge from some of the world’s most talented model makers. The new Lego Space Shuttle Discovery is not only a wonderfully detailed model, the build itself also feels like a crash course in advanced building techniques. Advertisement One of the most popular Lego sets of the past five years (at least given how often it sells out and is hard to find in stock) is the Apollo Saturn V model: a towering tribute to one of mankind’s greatest achievements. What the Apollo program accomplished was nothing sort of spectacular, but it all took place long before I was born. As a child of the ‘80s, NASA’s Space Shuttle program, as flawed as it may have been, was what captivated my imagination because it made space exploration feel closer to what science fiction thought it would and should be like.