How did I not hear about this before? Japan is designing paper airplanesthat will be able to survive being thrown from the international space station. Right now they have designed ones that can survive speeds up to mach 7 and 300 degrees Celsius. The space station is 400 km up, so they would travel a bit further than the ones I have made.
They hope a Japanese astronaut, who is going up in November, will throw about 100 of these into space. They will put the a message on the planes asking them to be sent back to Japan. I hope it happens.
Filed under: miscellaneous, science | Tagged: origami, space
