There’s certainly plenty more than just hard science going on in space, and it now looks like a group of researchers from the University of Tokyo are aiming to get in on that action as well. To that end, they’ve teamed up with the brains behind the Japan Origami Airplane organization to develop an origami aircraft that’ll supposedly be capable of surviving the flight from the universal Space Station to the Earth’s surface. They even seem to have made some progress already, with them set to experiment an eight centimeter enlarged prototype in the wind tunnel at the University of Tokyo later that week, where it’ll face wind speeds up to 5,300 miles per hour. Of course, it’ll face a few more obstacles than that in space, although the researchers guarantee us the plane has been “treated to resist intense heat.”

[Via Tech Digest]