Flickr: Photos from Ben Pearce Some wonderful found images Origami spaceplane aims for space station descent A paper plane might not seem ideally suited to space travel, but a Japanese engineering professor is collaborating with origami masters to design... ...full story at Huge Entity
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| 27 Dec 07 |
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origami world championship »
YouTube video Amazing footage from the Origami World Championship held November 2007 in the city of Noboribetsu on Hokkaido.
It ended up on 2nd place in the 1 minute class of the "memo" division (max. paper size 3"x3") in the "nature" category. |
| 31 Mar 08 |
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Scientists, origami masters float paper plane re-entry »
Japan Times  KASHIWA, Chiba Pref. (AP) Japanese scientists and origami masters hope to launch a paper airplane from space and learn from its trip back to Earth. Read the full story . . . |
| 03 Nov 07 |
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origami updated » Englishman in Osaka Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. It involves taking a piece of paper, folding it a lot, swearing a few times, screwing it up, throwing it across the room and starting again.If you persevere and keep your cool, you'll eventually end up... |
| 13 Mar 08 |
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Endeavour docks at space station » Japan Today The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour docked at the International Space Station on Wednesday night on a mission to deliver Japanese and other space laboratories. Japanese astronaut Takao Doi and the other crew members of Endeavour entered the station Thursday... |
| 23 Dec 08 |
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Space travel desired by one in four Japanese » What Japan Thinks I doubt if this will be on any of my readers’ Christmas shopping lists, but a recent survey conducted by iBridge Inc and reported on by japan.internet.com found a significant number of people keen on the idea of space travel, one part of a survey... |
| 11 Mar 08 |
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Shuttle Endeavour set to take Japan's lab to space station » Japan Today When space shuttle Endeavour blasts off Tuesday, it will carry Japan's first space lab to the International Space Station, giving the country a prized spot alongside the United States, Russia and Europe. With meteorologists reporting 90% favorable... |
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