Progress Update

Progress = Integral (What did you get done this week?) over 52 weeks (with receipts).

Achieved:

• ​Sent Dr. Eiman Jahangir to space with Blue Origin.

• ​Generated 214 ETH ($581,000) in onchain verifiable income.
• ​Onboarded 119 Citizens. Citizens have earned 11.9 ETH (~$31k) and 19.4M $MOONEY (~$6.5k) via our incentive system within the last quarter. That’s ~$1,200.00 in earnings per citizen / year.
• ​Platformed 15 Space Companies with our Teams platform. Sales, hiring, and funding all in one onchain dashboard.
• ​Launched crypto assets to the Moon with LifeShip as a lunar bounty in partnership with Mr. Miggles, Own the Doge, ElonRWA, Pudgy Penguins, and doms4ever generating 100k+ views.
• Developed space hardware: Space Time Card for atomic clock synchronization in partnership with Rochester Institute of Technology and Open Lunar. Accepted by DARPA for the LunA-10 workshop.
• ​Presented MoonDAO at the New Worlds Conference and the London Sea and Space Summit.
• ​Diversified treasury assets into Bitcoin generating a ~2x ROI. Staked 96 ETH (3 ETH/yr passive income).
• Created a documentary for Eiman (our second astronaut, now working for Blue Origin as “Crew Member 7” leading Astronaut training). First screening soon.

Focus for this quarter:

• Launch the first fundraiser for an onchain space company via our Launchpad to help them raise $1m+ for a space mission. 👀
• Increasing token liquidity + turning on the fee switch for automated staking rewards for vMOONEY holders.
• Large improvements to the https://moondao.com app UX/UI.

Did you missed the full update from last week?

MoonDAO 🌜🌐🌛 @OfficialMoonDAO MoonDAO Progress Update (May 27, 2025) Progress = Integral(What did you get done this week?) over 52 weeks (with receipts). Achieved: - Sent @DrEJahangir to space with @blueorigin. https://www.space.com/blue-origin-eiman-jahangir-suborbital-flight-moondao - Generated 214 ETH ($581,000) in onchain verifiable income. 12:45 AM • May 28, 2025 5 Retweets 12 Likes

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MoonDAO Town Hall Tomorrow!

Claiming Rewards Streamlined

Claiming your vMOONEY rewards for your quarterly contributions or the recent 10,000,000 vMOONEY airdrop to citizens and existing holders is now easier than ever. We’ve merged two separate pages and steps for locking and claiming into one easier flow, so now you can go to https://moondao.com/lock to claim your rewards if you haven't yet done so.

As shared above, 11.9 ETH (~$31k) and 19.4M $vMOONEY (~$6.5k) was sent out to Citizens via our incentive system within the last quarter. That’s ~$1,200.00 in earnings per citizen / year.

Yes, it pays to become a Citizen of the Space Acceleration Network. Citizens can submit their space related contributions here permissionlessly, and if you aren't yet a Citizen, what are you waiting forr?

Starship Failure or Success?

Yesterday, SpaceX's Starship faced what some are calling another setback during its ninth integrated flight test (IFT-9), with the third failure in a row for the vehicle’s second stage prior to reaching the critical goal of heat shield and reentry testing. While the launch initially appeared promising, multiple critical issues emerged mid-flight.

Initially, Starship's payload bay doors did not open, preventing the release of simulated Starlink satellites and then, roughly 30 minutes after launch, the ship began to spin uncontrollably due to a fuel leak that led to a loss of attitude control. This made it impossible to reignite its Raptor engine for deorbit and ultimately resulted in SpaceX venting fuel from the vehicle before it disintegrated over the Indian Ocean—another textbook example of what we call a RUD or Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.

But despite the RUD, there were some important milestones and valuable lessons, namely that it successfully overcame issues that had plagued the past two flights and reflew a Booster. While no catch attempt of the Booster was planned this time, it also failed to execute a planned soft landing in the Gulf, and contact was lost during the landing burn.

While this “fail forward” approach is typical of SpaceX, where each test flight is a chance to gather critical data, iterate rapidly, and improve, it’s hard not to note the lack of advances of Starship V2 during 2025, but we should recognize that IFT-9 went further than the last two flights, and these learnings will feed directly into the design and performance of the upcoming V3 version of Starship.

Progress isn’t always linear, but with SpaceX’s aggressive testing, fast cadence, and iterative model, every RUD brings us a little closer to orbit and hopefully beyond.

Blue Origin’s Next Flight

Blue Origin has announced that its next crewed New Shepard mission, NS-32, is scheduled to launch on Saturday, May 31, 2025, from Launch Site One in West Texas. The six-person crew includes a diverse lineup: STEM educator Amy Medina Jorge, radiologist and polar explorer Dr. Gretchen Green, Panamanian diplomat Jaime Alemán, Canadian mountaineer Jesse Williams, New Zealand aerospace leader Mark Rocket, and global traveler Paul Jeris. This marks the 12th human flight and an increasingly more rapid cadence.

Be sure to tune in, you might just see our very own Dr. Eiman Jahangir, MoonDAO’s 2nd astronaut from NS-26 and the first Iranian-American cardiologist to reach space, who has been hired by Blue Origin as one of the Crewmember 7 astronaut trainers, highlighting the continued role of community-driven organizations like MoonDAO in democratizing access to space.

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