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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 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.
• Shinji Suzuki of Tokyo University's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics checks a 7 centimeters (2.8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide Space Shuttle-shaped paper plane after a wind tunnel durability test at a laboratory in Kashiwa near Tokyo, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008. Japanese scientists and origami masters, headed by project leader Suzuki, 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.
• 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.
• A 7 centimeters (2.8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide Space Shuttle-shaped paper plane is seen surviving on a monitor screen during a durability test under a temperature of 230 degrees Celsius (446 degrees Fahrenheit) in a Mach 7 hypersonic wind tunnel at a Tokyo University laboratory in Kashiwa, near Tokyo, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008. Japanese scientists and origami masters, headed by project leader Shinji Suzuki of Tokyo University's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 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.
• Tokyo University Assistant Prof. Osamu Imamura checks a paper spacecraft before a wind tunnel durability test at a laboratory in Kashiwa near Tokyo Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008. Japanese scientists and origami masters, headed by project leader Shinji Suzuki of Tokyo University's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 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.
• Takuo Toda, head of Japan Origami Airplane Association, folds a space shuttle-shaped paper plane at the Japan Airlines' facilities in Tokyo, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008. Toda had nursed the idea of flying a shuttle-shaped paper plane since NASA launched its first spacecraft Enterprise in 1977.
• Shinji Suzuki of Tokyo University's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics shows a paper spacecraft at his laboratory in Kashiwa near Tokyo Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008. Japanese scientists and origami masters, headed by project leader Suzuki, 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.
• Tokyo University Assistant Prof. Osamu Imamura checks a paper spacecraft before a wind tunnel durability test at a laboratory in Kashiwa near Tokyo Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008. Japanese scientists and origami masters, headed by project leader Shinji Suzuki of Tokyo University's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 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.

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