Wooden (Space) Ships (opens the source in a new tab)
Ranger lunar probes 3, 4, and 5 had balsa wood 'impact-limiter' shells
Awake in the Night Land
From the staggeringly talented John C. Wright - an epic collection of four of John C. Wright’s brilliant forays into the dark fantasy world of William Hope Hodgson’s 1912 novel, The Night Land.