Astronaut Mark Kelly noticed a new visitor to the Int. Space Station:
Um, @StationCDRKelly, I thought you said you had things under control up there on @Space_Station? #ApeInSpace pic.twitter.com/wYu1auoA6W
— Mark Kelly (@ShuttleCDRKelly) February 23, 2016
More about the simian space explorer: Why Is A Gorilla Aboard The Space Station? – Popular Science.
Project Helium Tears takes an X-Wing fighter to the edge of space:
Check out this marvelous little musical comedy created by Esteban Gast: Found and Lost: The Story of Pluto –
Cast:
Esteban says the work is “based off Mike Brown’s Why I Killed Pluto“. Brown responds here.
Here’s a funny and funky tribute to SpaceX and Elon Musk produced by Cinesaurus: SpaceX Launch You Up (Uptown Funk Parody) – YouTube (The YT caption provides details of the video including the lyrics, the performers, etc.)
https://youtu.be/yypBjVpDJZY
High school freshman Mike Alex Hoppe feels compelled to fly a pie on a high altitude balloon. His π1 project is apparently inspired by the otherworldly taste of a great pie and also by this project: FPV to Space and back – RC Explorer.
Alex has a Kickstarter if you want to kick in on his dessert adventure : Pie In Space! by Alex Hoppe — Kickstarter
Why the pie?
I don’t know! Really, I’ve just always had this thing for pie: Pumpkin, Apple, Chocolate. I love them all. 😛 When I was designing this project I thought to myself, “How can I make my project different from all the other weather balloon projects?” Then it hit me, “PIE! No one has sent pie into space before!”
And that is why there will be pie in space!