Pete Worden at Town Hall: Join us TOMORROW for a conversation with special guest, Pete Worden, of Breakthrough Initiatives and ex-NASA Ames in the Bay Area. He's been one of the lead players in the transition to the new commercial space age and strengthening ties to Silicon Valley. We're super excited to be joined by Pete; he's a legend in the space industry! Read Pete Worden's bio. Please bring your questions, and invite your friends to tune in.
We'll also have two new proposals up for presentation, including the ACE Project and a treasury multi-sig swap. Time permitting, we'll have updates from our ongoing projects: the Art Rocket Project in Brazil, World's Biggest Analog Scholarships, IAC Paper, and the Executive Branch.
Isabelle Mierau of Space Debris DAO: ICYMI, at last week's Town Hall we discussed how we can build a cleaner, safer orbital future and a sustainable space economy. It was a fascinating conversation with our founder, Pablo Moncada. Catch the recording!
This quarter's retroactive reward pool is currently at ~$60k in ETH!
That means that projects that are completed this quarter are eligible to receive that... and there are currently only three new projects this quarter. It's not too late to submit a project though!
If you're sitting on the sidelines and considering putting together a proposal to fund research, hardware prototyping, market study, an education initiative or something to improve MoonDAO... now is the time!
Still confused about MOONEY, vMOONEY, and our governance process? We've got a brand new page on the site that goes into better detail about how it all works, including why we use quadratic voting, the geometric decay, distribution of quarterly rewards, and more.
Plus we've made it easy to get started so you can buy, lock, and co-govern MoonDAO. The new MoonDAO website is getting a sleek new design!
Crew‑11 mission launch: A multinational crew (U.S., Japan, Russia) successfully launched on August 1st to the ISS aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon capsule after an initial scrub. NASA will continue relying on Dragon for crewed flights through 2025 following Boeing Starliner delays.
U.S. announces lunar nuclear reactor plans: NASA’s acting administration has issued a directive to fast-track development and deployment of a 100‑kW nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030, to support sustained lunar presence and counter strategic moves by China and Russia.
Blue Origin launches NS-34 crewed mission: The suborbital flight carried six civilians, including TRON founder Justin Sun, past the Kármán line and back in Blue Origin’s 14th human spaceflight on August 3rd.
Congressional earmark to move a Space Shuttle to Houston: A provision in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” allocates funds to relocate a flown orbiter, likely Discovery, sparking legal disputes with the Smithsonian and concerns over total costs exceeding $300M.
World's Biggest Analog Vote LIVE You can now weigh in on which of our finalists deserve the top scholarships to participate in the World's Biggest Analog event this October! https://www.moondao.com/wba We had nearly 20 entries in total, narrowed down by the project committee to 10 outstanding finalists. Now, it's time for MoonDAO voting members to make the final decision to identify the top 3 winners. Scholarship Awards: 🥇 1st Prize: $5,000 🥈 2nd Prize: $2,500 🥉 3rd Prize: $1,000 All other...
One-Year Spaceflight Anniversary Tomorrow we’re excited to welcome back Dr. Eiman Jahangir for a very special MoonDAO Town Hall, marking the one-year anniversary of his NS-26 spaceflight with Blue Origin. We’ll revisit his incredible journey: from being selected through MoonDAO’s Ticket to Space Sweepstakes, to the experience of launch and microgravity, to how his life has transformed since. MoonDAO 🌜🌐🌛 @OfficialMoonDAO 1/ It was nearly a year ago when we sent our second person to space,...
MoonDAO x WBA Scholarship Finalists Announced! We’re excited to share that the 10 finalists for the World’s Biggest Analog (WBA) Scholarship Awards have been selected! These incredible candidates are preparing to take part in the largest space simulation of its kind, and now it's up to YOU, the MoonDAO community, to help decide how the $12,000 scholarship pool is awarded. Scholarship Awards: 🥇 1st Prize: $5,000 🥈 2nd Prize: $2,500 🥉 3rd Prize: $1,000 🌍 All other finalists: $500 each Meet the...
