Origami inspires CU Boulder aerospace students` spacecraft prototype
(World News Science)

When Anastasia Muszynski`s third-grade teacher taught her how to make an origami crane, the University of Colorado sophomore never imagined the paper-folding art would unfold as the inspiration behind a project designed to improve space flight. `This summer, I got to build spacecraft with my best friends,` said CU sophomore Alexandra Paquin. `I had the best summer ever.` Last year, Muszynski and her peers were brainstorming ideas for the High Altitude Student Platform flight program, supported by NASA and the Louisiana Space Consortium. HASP is a device that takes flight using a zero-pressure balloon carrying up to 12 student projects at an altitude of more than 20 miles in the air so...