Always wanted this set. As simple as it is, it has charm and is like abstract art to me.

Best Speed Champion Ever!

I didn't have it, but I remember I liked it.

I had that back in the day. Long gone now, but it was well enjoyed.

I remember seeing this on eBay (years before 10266 came out) and being surprised at how realistic it was, considering its age. Now, I cant help but laugh at the inaccuracies, such as the three astronauts that @Murdoch17 pointed out, the fact that even one of those astronauts would have a hard time fitting inside (although the set does include heads to depict the astronauts helmet-less), or the near-total lack of equipment and the grille-and-headlights printed piece on the rover. That said, I wouldn't mind having this; it's got some nice parts (That flag piece! The vintage antenna! And I wouldn't mind having some of the old, closed-stud 1x1 rounds), and the little equipment package is neat. I mentioned 10266 earlier; There's a picture of this next to it in one of the user reviews of 565 here, and it makes for an interesting comparison.

This was one of my first sets. Unfortunately, don't have it as my parents gave away all my childhood lego.

How many Space sets exist where the landing gear outweigh the vehicle they’re attached to?

Blue Moon,
You left me standing alone...

Seriously (or reasonably facsimile): One. Year. One year after this set is when Gray is added as a color...if TLG had wait one year, this set would look a tad more 'accurate' (with Gray subbing for 'metal')...oh well:)

@PurpleDave said:
"How many Space sets exist where the landing gear outweigh the vehicle they’re attached to?"

It aids stability. :)

This was one of my first LEGO sets as a kid when it was new. Built and rebuilt and modified it a bunch.

I hear this picture was staged -on the moon-. Or something along those lines.

All jokes aside, this is such an excellent set.

I remember having the European version of this, AKA 367, when I was a kid.
I still have those parts.

SPACESHIP!

I actally have this one! Mostly... parted it together from bricklink orders and still need a few bits to complete it (notably a yellow hinge, some grey thrusters, and a 1x6 with grill pattern). Neat set, pre-dates me by a few years. Had it on display next to 10266 for a bit.

@MCLegoboy said:
"I wonder what made them choose blue when gray and yellow were part of the color palette. It looks great, I'm just curious what the reason would be. Perhaps it just popped better for the background or it would stand out more from all the other space related toys of the time."

A nice bright blue set is going to be more appealing to children than a grey blob. Even the Castle sets, where grey is expected, put all the knights in their pageantry front and centre, and put big flags and those decorated wall pieces around to break up the monochrome. I suppose they could have gone yellow, but Lego space sets always seem to favour blue, guess they like the theming

What can I say? As a child, this was my favorite LEGO set. It had so much play value. It was the perfect companion to https://brickset.com/sets/358-1/Rocket-Base . It spawned my interest in space exploration which has lasted to this day. Like @ra226 I recently rebuilt and displayed it next to https://brickset.com/sets/10266-1 .

Look how straight that flag is, it proves there was a breeze and they aren’t REALLY on the moon.

@MCLegoboy said:
"I wonder what made them choose blue when gray and yellow were part of the color palette. It looks great, I'm just curious what the reason would be. Perhaps it just popped better for the background or it would stand out more from all the other space related toys of the time."

At the time, gray was hardly used. More as a supportive brick, like for a base plate, or maybe a few 1x1 round bricks. I think LEGO was just rather conservative in using more colours. Maybe because of production/logistics reasons.
I remember that as a child (in the 70s/80s), I would be happy to have more bricks in the same colour as the bricks I already had, because that would make it possible to build larger objects. There wasn't any BrickLink, and LEGO was expensive and rarely sold second hand (it would be hard to find where to get it from anyway).

one of my first sets . . . wonder how much of it i can rebuild? i know my antenna piece is broken, missing half the tines

An absolute classic. So classic in fact it might actually by historic, as this capitalized on the actual event that happened just 7 years before.

@Wrecknbuild
@MCLegoboy

Before Classic Space lego deliberately didn't produce much grey and green bricks because of their anti war policy. Apparently they didn't want children to build models of real-world tanks with them. If you look closely at Classic Space you can see that most grey bricks there were plates, wedges or slopes. Castle started to use grey bricks in the 80s (although not much, as most were still wall panels). Beside BURPS dark grey bricks barely appeared until the mid 90s.

I'm sure the color popping is also a consideration. As a kid I didn't feel much about Classic Space for the same reason.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili:
Traditionally, yes, people think of castles as being built of grey stone. Historically, they were built of whatever they could get their hands on (either quarried locally, or imported at great cost), so castles were more frequently made in colors that were not grey.
"

Cool story bro, but given my comment was about the expectations of Lego castles rather than the realities of actual castles you’re sort of haring off down a conversation that only you are having

My very first LEGO set, still have it (box, too!) after all these years. I enjoyed lots of "Far Out Space Nuts" moments while zooming this one around the house. Those alternate builds on the back of the box were a big challenge for this little kid. And I'm still pretty happy with the memory of the MOC's I built using just this set and a couple of copies of 113.

We just need a few more people to claim this one in their collections for the ownership to match the set number...

It would take another quarter of a century or so for TLG to even introduce regular old green in the palette of plates and bricks, that's how squeamish they were.

In fairness, they then went all-in, and also introduced earth-tones, pastels, trans-neons, metallics and skin-tones, so you know. Worth the wait.

@MCLegoboy said:
"I wonder what made them choose blue when gray and yellow were part of the color palette."
At that time you would find only grey plates but no bricks. I would guess they waited until release of the yellow castle before they considered to have bricks also.

@Ridgeheart:
They had actually removed it from the color palette already. The crumble trees had green ABS pellets glued to brown trunks. Medium-blue even predates blue, so there were a fair number of colors before the wife of, I believe, Gottfried, convinced her husband to reduce it to the five Mondrian colors because she liked the artist’s work.

This is just awesome! Maybe not that accurate, especially compared to what's possible nowadays, but like som many sets in those days this was really making the most of the limited part inventory.

As for the color use, I'll go with the theory that bright, primary colors just pop more than grey. Back then there were no AFOLs (at least not many), this is purely a toy for children. Lego back then was primary colors, black and white, with a few other colors in supporting roles. Even the theory that it was to prevent building war related stuff feels far fetched to me. There was just no need for more colors, and most would rather have a bunch of a few colors than a bit of many.

If all three astronauts are down there who is looking after the command module?

Also never mind the astronauts how did they get the rover into (and out of) the landing module.

@The_Lard_Of_Fear said:
"
Also never mind the astronauts how did they get the rover into (and out of) the landing module."

I was wondering about this myself as a child. I managed to device a way to store the rover inside the structure that the landing legs are attached to. I found my idea so brilliant that I made an instruction leaflet, showing how to do it. I have kept it until this day.

Blue and Yellow moon lander, Classic Space & Nasa are related after all.

I inherited this one from my Dad and uncles' collection, along with lots of other classic space, at age 5! I remember building it at least once as a kid, but it's been parted out for a long time now.

@Desbug: And to further the reference, it's blue!

@The_Lard_Of_Fear: The real-life rovers were stored, collapsed, in a compartment in the base.

@CliveyB said:
"Everyone knows this was actually faked by Stanley Ku-brick..."

Ku-brick?? Alright, I'm done with the internet for the day, no one's topping that!

@oldfan said:
"My very first LEGO set, still have it (box, too!) after all these years. I enjoyed lots of "Far Out Space Nuts" moments while zooming this one around the house. Those alternate builds on the back of the box were a big challenge for this little kid. And I'm still pretty happy with the memory of the MOC's I built using just this set and a couple of copies of 113.

We just need a few more people to claim this one in their collections for the ownership to match the set number..."

This was one of my very first sets. Some of the pieces have been lost over the years. Mostly with zooming it around the backyard. Plus lots of crash landings. Very fun set.

@PurpleDave: Aaaaah, the 'jet'...you're right...but then here's the $54,000 question: why didn't TLG put 'the Lander' in gray? Same with 'the Rover' actually...? I mean: 'Classic Space' is more accurate with their 'moon' vehicles (the 'ground' ones that is), than they (TLG) were towards actual space (NASA)...weird...

My first Lego set was 113 (for Christmas). This was my second (for my birthday the following March). At the time, I loved all things outer space. Wanted to be an astronaut. I loved this set. For years I could build it from memory. Box and instructions are long gone, but I still have many of the pieces, including the 1x6 grill piece. The sticker on my flag is still in place. They certainly don't make those like they used to. The next year at Christmas I asked for another "space set". That year, I got 483. It's been non-stop ever since.

The last mission of the Apollo program launched in late 1972, so this was less than 4 years after the event.

Looks more real than the official thing.

@The_Lard_Of_Fear:
There’s not three astronauts there. There’s two astronauts and a The Thing that’s masquerading as an astronaut. You’ve got a 50% chance of guessing right. So does your partner. And The Thing knows exactly what’s going on…and it’s hungry. Good luck!

As for the rover, the way the Apollo astronauts extracted theirs is actually really cool. So here’s a video showing the Apollo 15 rover being deployed:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_15_Lunar_Roving_Vehicle_deployment.webm

@brick_r:
Not a clue. I don’t know why they made that one piece in light-grey for this set either.

@oldfan said:
"My very first LEGO set, still have it (box, too!) after all these years. I enjoyed lots of "Far Out Space Nuts" moments while zooming this one around the house. Those alternate builds on the back of the box were a big challenge for this little kid. And I'm still pretty happy with the memory of the MOC's I built using just this set and a couple of copies of 113.

We just need a few more people to claim this one in their collections for the ownership to match the set number..."

I have one from my childhood, still have the box. It’s a treasure

And not one of them remembered to wear gloves.

@PurpleDave said:
" @The_Lard_Of_Fear :
There’s not three astronauts there. There’s two astronauts and a The Thing that’s masquerading as an astronaut. You’ve got a 50% chance of guessing right. So does your partner. And The Thing knows exactly what’s going on…and it’s hungry. Good luck!"

The Among Us-looking astronaut seems pretty sus to me...

Although, are we sure this isn't found footage of Apollo 18 instead?

@Murdoch17 said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @The_Lard_Of_Fear :
There’s not three astronauts there. There’s two astronauts and a The Thing that’s masquerading as an astronaut. You’ve got a 50% chance of guessing right. So does your partner. And The Thing knows exactly what’s going on…and it’s hungry. Good luck!"

The Among Us-looking astronaut seems pretty sus to me...

Although, are we sure this isn't found footage of Apollo 18 instead?"

And so the remaining two astronauts lean despondently against the rover for one final drink. Either one of them could be the imposter. Neither one could be the imposter. Neither one can trust the other, and so they take off their gloves at the same time.

Explosive decompression would be quick and merciful.

But unfortunately, fold-spindle mutilation isn't.

In space, nobody can hear your body trying to force itself out of your sleeves like pink toothpaste out of a tube.

I must have built, re-built, adapted, modified this set a thousand times as a kid. A fabulous model in its time and a true Lego classic.

Pretty much all the parts are in a massive collection of nearly fifty year old Lego at my parents’ house and I know I still have the original instructions. I have 10266 waiting to be built but I may just have to go find all the parts for this too!

I think this is also technically the first ever official set to feature a location from a Zelda-game.

@Ridgeheart said:
"I think this is also technically the first ever official set to feature a location from a Zelda-game."

?

@PurpleDave said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"I think this is also technically the first ever official set to feature a location from a Zelda-game."

?
"

https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Moon

@Ridgeheart:
So Nintendo clearly included a LEGO set Easter egg to hint at their future Mario colab that they’d be doing in a few years, and you guys see that and immediately think TLG instead predicted the moon’s inclusion in a game that wouldn’t be released for another 24 years? Wow, talk about being delusional…

@PurpleDave said:
" @Ridgeheart:
So Nintendo clearly included a LEGO set Easter egg to hint at their future Mario colab that they’d be doing in a few years, and you guys see that and immediately think TLG instead predicted the moon’s inclusion in a game that wouldn’t be released for another 24 years? Wow, talk about being delusional…"

Kerbal Space Program-set, confirmed.