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:
π₯ 1st Prize: $5,000
π₯ 2nd Prize: $2,500
π₯ 3rd Prize: $1,000
All other finalists: $500 each
Please submit 100% of your voting power to the candidate or candidates that you believe deserve to win the top scholarships. Remember: You must confirm your vote in your wallet after clicking Submit Distribution.
Through our dedicated WBA voting portal, you can distribute your voting power (square root of vMOONEY balance) as a percentage between the candidates. You can vote for multiple people but must distribute 100% to submit. Votes are due by Monday, September 8th at midnight EST.
P.S. Please stay tuned for votes on the most recently presented projects or proposals as we resolve a Snapshot voting hiccup.
MoonDAO Events
On September 4th at 3 p.m. ET: we've got a special MoonDAO Town Hall with Loretta Whitesides. Loretta is a Founder Astronaut at Virgin Galactic, creator of SpaceKind, and author of βThe New Right Stuff.β We will talk practical tools for leading in the space era and how the space sector can bring out the best in people.
The next SpaceKind training cohort kicks off on Wednesday, September 17, 2025 at 5pm Pacific for 8 weeks.
In the weeks ahead, we've got a special in-person meetup in Brazil with TWO people that have been to space, including our second astronaut, Dr. Eiman Jahangir. We're excited to see the RSVPs starting to roll in from the local space community in Rio for this exciting, international space meetup.
And we've got Chris Sembroski of the Inspiration4 mission scheduled to join us on September 18th.
In case you missed it, last week we had a very special virtual talk with Eiman to celebrate the one-year anniversary of his flight to space, an event made possible by the entire MoonDAO community.
Eiman has been an incredible representative of MoonDAO and our mission, and we're proud to call him our second astronaut. During the chat, we recapped how he learned he was going to space with MoonDAO, what the flight itself was like, and how his life has changed since then.
Eiman has taken some big steps, including serving as one of Blue Origin's Crewmember 7 that trains future flyers, and doing outreach to numerous local public schools in Nashville to encourage students of all ages to reach for their dreams and persist.
That outreach effort is the subject of a new documentary short that will be premiering in Nashville, TN on September 20th, and he'll also be unveiling the display of his flight suit at the Adventure Science Center museum.
During our live event last week, we got a special sneak peek at the trailer for this inspiring documentary. Be sure to give it a watch!
βCanada unveils its first-ever Moon rover: The Canadian Space Agency, together with local tech firms, revealed Canadaβs first lunar rover set to conduct surface exploration and scientific experiments later this decade.
βSpace habitats get a high-comfort, modular makeover: Designers and institutes including SAGA, Max Space, Aurelia Institute, and ESA are developing lighter, modular, expandable habitats with comfort-enhancing materials like cork and algae, along with inflatable and self-assembling designs.
Dear Friends and Colleagues, After 40 years of interviewing astronauts about their experiences of the Overview Effect, I decided it was time for me to see the Earth from a distance myself! Working with MoonDAO and an army of supporters, we launched a fundraising campaign on March 12 to secure a flight on a stratospheric balloon, suborbital hop, or something beyond. If we raise enough funds, a member of the space community will go with me. This is an inflection point in human history. Either...
Join us on Thursday, April 9th at 3pm ET (12pm PT) for a conversation between Inspiration4 astronaut, Chris Sembroski, and Frank White, author of the Overview Effect. This will be the third week in a row with Frank speaking directly to astronauts live and open to the public to attend and participate virtually. The last two weeks have been incredible explorations of sub-orbital spaceflight! You're not going to want to miss this conversation about an orbital journey. RSVP:...
Hello Reader, The deadline for submitting a Q2 project proposal is tomorrow! This is your opportunity to get involved in MoonDAO by receiving a small grant and working on a concrete goal for the quarter. The proposal maximum budget is $4,682. These grants are intended to support people that are working on things that support our mission to create a sustained human presence on the moon, this can be in the form of research, education, inspiration, or small seed funding for engineering projects....
