USAF eyes Lego concept for space structures

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is taking the Lego toy concept to orbit, asking industry to explore the idea of using a relatively small family of building blocks to quickly construct nearly any kind of complex structure in space. "Our motivation is to build systems in the most rapid time...

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