Setting a Guinness World Record in Space with the Project Hail Mary LEGO Icons Kit

We’ve been on an incredible run lately at Sent Into Space. With the Highest Altitude IMAX Film Trailer for Amazon MGM Studios' Project Hail Mary movie still receiving heaps of press attention, it seems slightly surreal to announce that we’ve actually been awarded our second Guinness World Record – just days after securing the first!

We teamed up with Sony Pictures Releasing UK once again (who distributed the film in the UK) to take on the record-breaking endeavour, this time setting our sights on the Highest Altitude Launch and Retrieval of a LEGO Set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7J9WO7swBo

Building a spacecraft block by block

It goes without saying that every one of our projects is an exciting undertaking, but getting the chance to incorporate a LEGO build into the engineering phase made this one a whole heap of fun! Once our Tech Team had battled it out with the instructions to assemble the LEGO® Icons Project Hail Mary, we mounted it to a bespoke launch platform containing integrated camera arrays to capture the historic flight in high definition.

Launching from Snowdonia Space Centre

With the LEGO craft ready to go, we travelled to Wales to imbue the project with an air of space-age gravitas – courtesy of Snowdonia Space Centre’s smorgasbord of launch pads, control towers and flight hangers. Here, the team conducted a plethora of pre-flight checks before releasing the craft on its record-breaking journey. The rest, as they say, is history.

A big thank you

We’d like to extend a massive thank you to Sony Pictures UK for being our record-breaking partners once again, and we hope that Project Hail Mary fans everywhere enjoy watching the otherworldly flight footage. With a second Guinness World Record now under our belts, we can’t help but wonder what our wall would look like sporting a trio of matching certificates…