{"id":143471,"date":"2018-06-19T19:06:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T19:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/bakewell-pudding-sent-to-the-edge-of-space-goes-missing\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T19:06:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T19:06:56","slug":"bakewell-pudding-sent-to-the-edge-of-space-goes-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/bakewell-pudding-sent-to-the-edge-of-space-goes-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakewell pudding sent to the edge of space goes missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photograph of the pudding at about 50,000ft\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/122F0\/production\/_102108447_2018-06-18--08-50-48-saflye-1fd47-3.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  S. Anselm\u2019s School<figcaption>Image caption                                      Photograph of the pudding at about 50,000ft above earth                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A Bakewell pudding which was launched to the edges of space, with tracking devices attached, has gone missing.<\/p>\n<p>Pupils at S. Anselm&#039;s Preparatory School, in Derbyshire sent the dessert, which was attached to a high altitude balloon, flying on Monday to raise money for charity.<\/p>\n<p>Tracking devices showed it had reached altitude of 16,000m (52,500ft) and was over Saxilby, near Lincoln, but the devices have since stopped working.<\/p>\n<p>The school still hoped to find it.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  S. Anselm\u2019s School<figcaption>Image caption                                      The Bakewell pudding before take off                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was expected to reach heights of about 35,000m (114,000ft).<\/p>\n<p>Liz Scott, director of studies, said: &quot;Last year, we launched a high-altitude balloon in preparation for this experiment and it was found by a couple on a beach near Skegness, who used the contact details on the balloon to let us know where it ended up.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#039;re hoping the same thing will happen again and we&#039;ll find out where the pudding ends up.&quot;<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  S. Anselm\u2019s School<figcaption>Image caption                                      The trackers on the balloon records its position, along with temperatures and photographs                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She said the pupils have raised about \u00a31,600 for the Guide Dogs for the Blind charity as part of the experiment by asking local firms to sponsor them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meat and potato pie &#039;sent into space&#039; <\/li>\n<li>Cuddly toy blasted into stratosphere <\/li>\n<li>The oddities sent to space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The trackers on the altitude balloon records its position, along with temperatures and photographs.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  S. Anselm\u2019s School<figcaption>Image caption                                      The sweet treat was launched into the sky on Monday                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright S. Anselm\u2019s SchoolImage caption Photograph of the pudding at about 50,000ft above earth A Bakewell pudding which was launched to the edges of space, with tracking devices attached,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}