Japanese scientists want to send a wooden satellite into space

By Rebecca Cairns, CNN

( CNN)– Aluminum rockets and steel high-rise buildings; glossy high-speed shuttle bus and glazed exteriors: that’s exactly how “the future” has actually been visualized for years.

But that’s not what Koji Murata envisions. A scientist at Kyoto University in Japan, Murata has actually been discovering exactly how organic products can be made use of in space.

Murata questioned if he “could build a wooden house on the moon or Mars,” and determined to examination the concept– by producing a wooden satellite

Recent research from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discovered that 10% of climatic aerosol in the air included metal fragments from spacecraft, consisting of satellites. The long-lasting effect of these steel pieces is unidentified, however scientists are worried it can harm Earth’s vulnerable ozone layer.

Wooden satellites would certainly be much better for the world …