Since he was eight years old, Robert Salazar has been making artistic creations from folded paper.

Now, he is taking his love of origami to a different place: outer space.

Origami - Robert Salazar

Salazar works with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the United States space agency NASA. He says that ideas from origami can help design devices for research and exploration:

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Words in This Story

origami – n. the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes that look like birds, animals, etc.

deploy –v. : to open up and spread out the parts of (something, such as a parachute)

exoplanet – n. a planet that orbits a star outside the solar system.

inaccessible – adj. difficult or impossible to reach, approach, or understand : not accessible

technologist – n. someone who is an expert in technology