{"id":8766,"date":"2014-09-09T13:26:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8766"},"modified":"2014-09-09T13:26:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T17:26:14","slug":"rockzip-highballoons-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8766","title":{"rendered":"Rockzip Highballoons Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockzip.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Rockzip Highballoons<\/a>\u00a0is closing in on their crowd-funding goal with a couple of days left:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1965134794\/rockzip-a-million-balloons-a-billion-lives\" target=\"_d\">Rockzip &#8211; Launch Your Own Highballoon to Space! Staff Pick by Rockzip Highballoons \u2014 Kickstarter<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1965134794\/rockzip-a-million-balloons-a-billion-lives\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockzip Highballoons\u00a0is closing in on their crowd-funding goal with a couple of days left:\u00a0Rockzip &#8211; Launch Your Own Highballoon to Space! Staff Pick by Rockzip Highballoons \u2014 Kickstarter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-near-space","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2ho","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3286,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3286","url_meta":{"origin":8766,"position":0},"title":"Arkyd space telescope Kickstarter extended: July 9-19","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Arkyd public telescope Kickstarter campaign, which exceeded its $1M goal by $505k, has been extended to allow more people to obtain space selfies and other benefits of contributions: ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone -\u00a0 By Request: Limited Kickstarter Extension \u2014 July 9th - July 19th You Can Still\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/yJMCUqOHpi8\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1701,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1701","url_meta":{"origin":8766,"position":1},"title":"Kickstarter: Making a movie of a Harry Harrison novel + Sending your face to space","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A reader points me to a couple of space related Kickstarter campaigns. 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