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Origami Engineering: In the Fold - CaliforniaConnected.org

  • ️Thu Apr 08 2004

What do astronomy and origami have in common, besides the clumsy rhyming scheme? Robert Lang, a pioneer in the new school of “technical origami” blends science and the ancient Japanese art of paper folding to help physicists at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory fold a five meter telescope lens—twice the size of Hubble’s—in order to ready it for space travel.

An earlier version of this story first aired April 8, 2004.

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