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

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