Your vote: 10 new eligible projects


Project Voting and Retroactive Distributions Are Live

You decide which projects get funded. You decide where rewards go. This is your space program.

2 open votes · Closes Monday, July 27

The MoonDAO community is deciding two important things:

  1. Which new projects get funded
  2. How rewards get split among completed projects

Vote 1: Project Proposals

10 proposals passed Senate Review. Only the top projects get approved and funded, so your vote decides who makes the cut.

  1. Core Researcher to Implement Ethical Framework of Human Space Migration
  2. MDRS Crew Seat (2026–2027 Field Season)
  3. Study Project Investigating the Concept of Island Zero
  4. PULSE (now TOGO): Enabling Automated Medicine Delivery During IVA & EVA
  5. Satellite Payload and Secondary Education Project
  6. Mission Cosmic Colombia
  7. Digital Lunar Economy Simulation, Beta Version
  8. FUTURA: Rover Mission Control & Rover Prototype (Proof of Concept)
  9. Interactive NASA Lunar Base Model
  10. Human Rated DAO Vacuum Chamber

Vote 2: Retroactive Rewards

7 projects completed their work last quarter, competing for 6,588,000 MOONEY + $5,629 USDC in retroactive rewards. You decide the split, based on their proof of work and impact.

  1. Rover Mission & Lunar City Simulator
  2. Lunar Development Cooperative Simulation Tabletop Game
  3. Sustain MoonDAO Growth with Laika
  4. LunARC Governance Design Workshop (Universidad NUR)
  5. Maldives Space Research Balloons
  6. Open Pathways to Space: Democratizing Space Analog Missions in Brazil's Semiarid
  7. Citizens Space Policy Initiative

Both votes are on the same page. Click Retroactives to distribute rewards for the completed projects.

Voting closes Monday, July 27.

Watch the Q3 pitch day

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​Watch the full recording​

Or jump straight to an individual pitch:

  • ​16:08 – Ethical Framework of Human Space Migration — Aurobi Das
  • ​25:33 – MDRS Crew Seat, 2026–2027 Field Season — James Burk
  • ​44:10 – Island Zero — Jerry Stone
  • ​56:45 – PULSE / TOGO — Ellie Loehr
  • ​1:16:02 – Satellite Payload and Secondary Education Project — Florence Pauline Basubas
  • ​1:27:51 – Mission Cosmic Colombia — Giovanna Ramirez
  • ​1:37:18 – Digital Lunar Economy Simulation, Beta — Michael Castle-Miller
  • ​1:46:29 – Open Lunar Site Qualification Framework — Sky Cielo Lavergne
  • ​1:54:17 – Interactive NASA Lunar Base Model — Stefan Aleksa Djurdjevic
  • ​2:03:13 – Human-Rated Vacuum Chamber Outfitting and DAO Citizen Technology Testing — Trent Tresch

​Watch the Demo Day final reports:

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Thank you for supporting the future of space access.

P.S. Join us live tomorrow for our weekly Town Hall, every Thursday at 3pm ET. https://moondao.com/events

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