NASA has done extensive materials testing the easy and smart way, by getting boards covered with rectangles of different materials, dozens at a time, sending them into space for a while, then bringing them back for analysis.
Structural integrity; heat, cold, and radiation resistance; strength testing for tension, compression, and torsion; etc., etc.
Almost needless to say, very few materials came back unscathed. However, it would be very good science to do this test with all sorts of different woods.