{"id":9247,"date":"2014-11-13T21:15:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T02:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9247"},"modified":"2014-11-14T20:05:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T01:05:19","slug":"taking-pie-where-no-pie-has-gone-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9247","title":{"rendered":"Taking pie where no pie has gone before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High school freshman <del>Mike<\/del>\u00a0Alex Hoppe feels compelled to fly\u00a0a pie\u00a0on\u00a0a high altitude balloon. His\u00a0<i><b>\u03c0<\/b>1<\/i>\u00a0project is apparently\u00a0inspired by the otherworldly taste of a great pie and also by this project:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rcexplorer.se\/projects\/2013\/03\/fpv-to-space-and-back\/\" target=\"_d\">FPV to Space and back &#8211;\u00a0RC Explorer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alex\u00a0has a Kickstarter if you want to kick in on his dessert adventure : \u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 14.4444446563721px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/92851479\/pie-in-space\" target=\"_d\">Pie In Space! by Alex\u00a0Hoppe \u2014 Kickstarter<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><b>Why the pie?<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I don&#8217;t know! \u00a0Really, I&#8217;ve just always had this thing for pie: Pumpkin, Apple, Chocolate. \u00a0I love them all. \ud83d\ude1b \u00a0When I was designing this project I thought to myself, &#8220;How can I make my project different from all the other weather balloon projects?&#8221; \u00a0Then it hit me, &#8220;PIE! \u00a0No one has sent pie into space before!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>And that is why there will be pie in space!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High school freshman Mike\u00a0Alex Hoppe feels compelled to fly\u00a0a pie\u00a0on\u00a0a high altitude balloon. His\u00a0\u03c01\u00a0project is apparently\u00a0inspired by the otherworldly taste of a great pie and also by this project:\u00a0FPV to Space and back &#8211;\u00a0RC Explorer. Alex\u00a0has a Kickstarter if you want to kick in on his dessert adventure : \u00a0Pie In Space! by Alex\u00a0Hoppe \u2014 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taking pie where no pie has gone before<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[22,25,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-near-space","category-space-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2p9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1701,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1701","url_meta":{"origin":9247,"position":0},"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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