Scientists Aim for Origami Space Flight

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A 7 centimeters (2.8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide Space Shuttle-shaped paper plane is seen in a wind tunnel before a durability test at a Tokyo University laboratory in Kashiwa near Tokyo Wednesday Feb. 6 2008. Japanese scientists a ...
A 7 centimeters (2.8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide Space Shuttle-shaped paper plane is seen in a wind tunnel before a durability test at a Tokyo University laboratory in Kashiwa, near Tokyo, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008. Japanese scientists and origami masters are aiming to achieve what may seem a frivolous ambition: launch a paper airplane from space to see if it can make it back to earth. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

(AP) -- Japanese scientists and origami masters hope to launch a paper airplane from space and learn from its trip back to Earth.


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