MoonDAO’s mission is to create a self-sustaining, self-governing colony on the Moon to act as a launch point for humanity to explore the cosmos. Here are the latest updates from the team. Be sure to sign up below to learn more about how you can get involved with the Internet's Space Program.
It's official! Meet MoonDAO's second astronaut...
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Hey Reader, MoonDAO UpdatesMeet Our 2nd AstronautIt’s for real… Everything has been made official and we’re SO excited to finally announce who is going to space!!! Three months ago, MoonDAO wrapped up the Ticket to Space sweepstakes, which received more than 2,200 entries coming in from all over the world. This week we’re going to have a special livestream event to finally announce the lucky individual who has been selected as MoonDAO’s second citizen astronaut to ride aboard a future New Shepard rocket launch. We’ll chat about their background, what their reaction was to winning this once in a lifetime journey, and more. You all are gonna LOVE our next astronaut... Set a reminder to join us live this Thursday at 4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern to meet our second astronaut on YouTube | X! Get hyped. Maybe watch that Coby Cotton launch video again for a glimpse of what they'll be experiencing.
Vote Now + ResultsMDP-140: Citizen and Entity Go To Market is now live for voting. This proposal involves the roll-out of a new streamlined process for individuals and organizations to join MoonDAO in just one click. A demo of the app onboarding flow was showcased during MoonDAO Q1 2024 Final Reports. Now, this project will continue building on what was done in Q1 and onboard the first 10 entities (companies or other organizations) and the first 100 MoonDAO citizens for this foundational round. Read the full proposal and vote now. Thanks to all of you who voted on the previous two proposals. The recent constitutional amendment was successfully passed which will allow rollover of the top five contributors in our retroactive rewards process into the Senate for the next quarter to ensure governance continuity on a meritocratic basis. Speaking of retroactive rewards, calculations have been finalized thanks to the community vote. You can review the results of the payments to each project and team member for the sake of transparency. Bite-Sized Space News20th FlightSpaceX achieved another groundbreaking milestone with the successful launch of the B1062 booster marking the 20th launch and landing of a first stage—a new record. Departing from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on April 12, the launch coincided with the 43rd anniversary of NASA's inaugural space shuttle flight in 1981. The first stage returned to Earth for its 20th landing on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas. Late last year, booster B1058 (with the NASA worm logo) was a reusable first-stage booster that broke a turnaround record and flew 19 times before tipping over in rough seas and high winds on its return to Port Canaveral in December 2023. B1058 was the first Falcon 9 booster to fly fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen times. The booster had launched Crew Dragon Demo-2 (with Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley) to the ISS in 2020 and carried 23 Starlink satellites on its final flight on December 23, 2023. Delta HeavyIn a historic farewell, United Launch Alliance bid adieu to the Delta 4 Heavy rocket with the launch of a classified National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) spy satellite on April 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The rocket, known for its three common core boosters, marked the end of an era after 16 missions since its debut in 2004. ULA, transitioning to its Vulcan Centaur rocket, described the moment as bittersweet, signaling the end of a legacy dating back to the space age's early days. The future of the launch pad remains uncertain, pending an environmental review by the U.S. Space Force.
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MoonDAO’s mission is to create a self-sustaining, self-governing colony on the Moon to act as a launch point for humanity to explore the cosmos. Here are the latest updates from the team. Be sure to sign up below to learn more about how you can get involved with the Internet's Space Program.
Hey Reader, MoonDAO Updates Anastasia Stepanova on MoonDAO Live! This Wednesday (May 1st) we’ll be joined by Anastasia Stepanova on this week's episode of MoonDAO Live! Anastasia is an experienced analog astronaut and mission specialist, a PhD student at the Colorado School of Mines, and all around amazing person in the space industry. We’ll be chatting with Anastasia about her experience on our recent ZeroG flight (check out this short video), what she learned attending this year’s Space...
Hey Reader, Happy Earth Day to everyone! MoonDAO Updates Meet Dr. Eiman Jahangir In case you missed it, last Thursday MoonDAO presented the winner of the Ticket to Space sweepstakes, Dr. Eiman Jahangir. We had an awesome livestream event where we introduced him to the MoonDAO community and everyone else watching. Credit: Cassandra Klos Watch a replay of the livestream and an interview with Eiman on: YouTube X LinkedIn Facebook Eiman was born in Tehran, Iran and moved to Nashville, TN at age...
Hey Reader, MoonDAO Updates Q1 Retroactive Rewards Every three months, MoonDAO holds what we call Quarterly Retroactive Rewards. Imagine it like getting a report card for the cool projects we've wrapped in the last three months, but instead of grades, we're giving out financial and governance rewards to contributors in the form of ETH and voting MOONEY! We want to make sure everyone gets a fair share based on the actual results delivered as a project and an individual's effort on each...