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.
Want to See a Rocket Launch in Kazakhstan? We're sending one lucky MoonDAO Citizen on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this November: Witness a crewed Soyuz rocket launch Spend 5 days at the facility Exclusive tours + insider access The rocket will even be decorated with artwork from Brazil’s cancer patients, building on MoonDAO’s Art Rocket Project with the Unity Foundation. Want to go? Share your big idea where space meets social impact and international...
In this edition: Documentary Movie Premiere! Executive Election Notice Open Vote: Save the Space Mice Brazil Town Hall + Plus an Exciting Opportunity 👀 Documentary Movie Premiere! Last weekend saw the premiere of the documentary Eiman Jahangir: Lift Off at the Adventure Science Center in Nashville, Tennessee. This mini documentary was filmed by Jerome Moore and highlights Eiman's spaceflight last year and his follow up visits to area schools to inspire the next generation to pursue their...
Chris Sembroski of Inspiration4 Join us tomorrow for a very special town hall with Chris "Hanks" Sembroski, commercial astronaut with the Inspiration4 mission. We’ll explore his path to space, his experiences on orbit, and what it means to carry that mission of inspiration forward. Inspiration4 launched four years ago and was the first orbital spaceflight with only private citizens aboard. It was also part of a charitable effort on behalf of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis,...
