As a kid, you may have had frequent squabbles with friends on who can make the best paper airplane, whose can fly the longest; that battle has just been won by a Japanese astronaut, Koichi Wakata, given the honor of being able to drop nine specially constructed paper airplanes from the International Space Station and watch as they make their way to Earth. Technically, they are called Paper Space Shuttles the size of ordinary origami planes that will be dropped from a point 250 miles above the Earth’s surface and will take approximately two days to reach their destination. If you’re wondering how a flimsy paper plane can survive the extreme heat and strenuous flight, then worry not. The planes are made of special chemically treated paper that allows them to withstand the excessive temperatures and speed is no problem either, as they can sustain 53000 mph. If you’re lucky, they might just land somewhere in your backyard, but then you might have to return them to NASA….or you could just keep ‘em…   [gizmodo.com]