Takuo Toda, head of the Japan Origami Airplane Association (classy!) set a new world record with his 27.9 second flight. His greatest ambition, however, is to launch a paper plane…from space. Toda’s ...

To get started, all you need is a standard A4 sheet of paper and the folding skills of a 4-year-old. Reading time 3 minutes Building a spacecraft could one day be as simple as folding a piece of paper ...

Japanese scientists and origami masters hope to launch a paper airplane from space and learn from its trip back to Earth. It's no joke. A prototype passed a durability test in a wind tunnel this month ...

An astronaut will throw an origami paper plane from space to see what happens to it on its way back to Earth. Aeronautical engineers from Tokyo University will track its every move as it travels, at ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to take the art of origami paper folding to outer space, launching a paper plane from the International Space Station to Earth to learn about future ...

It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s a paper airplane! The world record for the farthest flight by paper airplane has been broken by three aerospace engineers with a paper aircraft that flew a grand total ...

There must be a lot of people who have memories of origami making "paper airplanes" when they were children, but there should not be too many people who further entered the world of competition from ...

Testing a small-scale prototype of the space paper airplane in the University of Tokyo's hypersonic wind tunnel. Shinji Suzuki Earlier this year, when astronauts attached the first section of Japan’s ...

If there is only one piece of paper there is a play that anyone can enjoyorigamiHowever, it is a deep place to become highly advanced art when you explore the way. I think that the first thing a child ...

According to the Academy of Model Aeronautics, the paper airplane has a long history. Some of the first paper airplane designs came from the ancient art of Japanese origami. Early pioneers of the sky ...