Air and Space Origami Ebook: Paper Rockets, Airplanes, Spaceships and More! [Origami eBook]
By John Szinger and Kostya Vints
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The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum hosts seven million visitors annually--a testament to our enduring fascination with flight. Noted origami artist John Szinger has created this unique collection of paper airplane and rocket models inspired by real life flying machines.
Let your imagination soar with 14 original designs, including:
- A Supersonic Transport, recalling the golden age of commercial hypersonic travel
- The Space Pod, designed to safely return astronauts to earth through the intense heat of re-entry
- A graceful Hot Air Balloon--make several to create your own miniature ballooning festival
- An elusive Flying Saucer--try as they might, the government can't conceal this one
- A sci-fi inspired Art Deco Rocket with exaggerated fins and sleek lines
- And many other thrilling origami air and space models!
- A colorful 64-page step-by-step origami instructions book
- 14 exciting air and space origami projects
- 48 sheets of downloadable, double-sided folding paper for printing at home
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Air and Space Origami Ebook - John Szinger
THE ADVENTURE OF FLIGHT
Since ancient times, people have looked up to the sky and dreamed of flying through the air and traveling among the stars. The ancients imagined the sun as a chariot, the moon as a wolf, and the sky as being imbued with magic powers. But all of it remained essentially unreachable and mysterious.
It is only in our modern age of technological marvels that dreams of flight have been made possible. The era of powered human air travel began little more than one hundred years ago with the invention of the airplane. Space exploration became a reality just a half century later. We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of the sky and outer space. The potential for exploration seems limitless.
Many scientists believe we may eventually make contact with intelligent beings and civilizations from other planets. Of course, nothing is guaranteed. Thousands of years ago advanced civilizations existed around the Mediterranean Sea and in other places on Earth, only to crumble into ruins. It took many centuries for humans to rediscover and eventually surpass the levels of knowledge possessed by the ancients. So it is in modern times. Technological progress must be matched by wisdom and compassion.
In addition to pilots, astronauts, and other pioneers, the great adventure of sky and outer space exploration could not be accomplished without the scientists, engineers, designers, craftsmen, managers, researchers and workers of all kinds who dream up and bring into existence the vehicles that push the boundaries of speed and distance. I hope that in folding the models in this book you share in some small way that sense of adventure.
The Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA is the largest private air and space museum in the world. Elena_Suvorova/Shutterstock.com
The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA holds the largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft in the world. f11photo/Shutterstock.com
A rocket garden
at the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida. NeonLight/Shutterstock.com
This book presents a collection of origami aircraft and spaceships based in part on historical examples, combined with speculation about future possibilities, maybe another hundred years from now. Most scientists think that Mars is devoid of advanced life forms, but there’s no reason the red planet might not become home to visitors from another world much farther away, who have colonized it in order to be closer to Earth.
The models in this book are generally of an intermediate level, accessible to the folder with some experience but not necessarily an expert. They are designed to be foldable from 8" paper. A collection of paper is