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Japanese Origami Shuttles FROM SPACE!

  • 10-12-2008 12:30pm
    #1
    BaconZombie
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    Japanese precision machinery manufacturer Castem has sent nine origami space shuttles to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) office in Houston, it was announced on October 7. If all goes as planned, the paper planes will conduct experimental flights from the space station to Earth early next year.

    If NASA approves, the Space Shuttle Discovery will carry the origami planes to the International Space Station (ISS) in February 2009. JAXA astronaut Dr. Koichi Wakata, who will be living aboard ISS when the origami planes arrive, will carry out the experiment from the Kibo Japanese Experiment Module. It is yet to be decided whether Wakata himself will throw the paper planes or whether he will use the space station’s robotic arm.

    In either case, JAXA estimates it will take two days for the origami shuttles to complete the 400-kilometer (250 mi) journey from ISS to the planet surface.

    http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/10/photos-of-jaxas-origami-space-shuttles/


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  • #2
    Varkov
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    A bt hessitant to click on anything called pinktentacle.com in work.


  • #3
    ordinary_story
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    imagine the air youd get out of one of those:eek:. Much better than the standard ones we use around the office


  • #4
    Puddleduck
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    Pfft..thatll never make it to space.


  • #5
    ordinary_story
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    Puddleduck wrote: »
    Pfft..thatll never make it to space.

    theres probably more technology in those than in the space shuttle they are using to get it up there


  • #6
    BaconZombie
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    They are launching them from the ISS so they will already be in space....
    Puddleduck wrote: »
    Pfft..thatll never make it to space.


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  • #7
    Puddleduck
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    BOFH_139 wrote: »
    They are launching them from the ISS so they will already be in space....


    Then itll never make it back to earth. Ha! :p


  • #8
    ShooterSF
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    Surely even if these do make it to Earth they have a 70% chance of landing in that blue floaty stuff never to be found...


  • #9
    AckwelFoley
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    Ah, Japan.

    Great for loli and raw fish.

    Not so good for space travel


  • #10
    Puddleduck
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    snyper wrote: »
    Ah, Japan.

    Great for loli and raw fish.

    Not so good for space travel

    Yea but the people are actually small enough to fit into the little shuttles


  • #11
    Nodin
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    Varkov wrote: »
    A bt hessitant to click on anything called pinktentacle.com in work.

    A common, if understandable, form of Hentaiphobia....


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  • #12
    oeb
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    Puddleduck wrote: »
    Yea but the people are actually small enough to fit into the little shuttles

    Ya, but they seem empty again an hour later.


  • #13
    Varkov
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭Varkov


    Ah, Japan.


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