A short film documentary capturing the launch of 'VNCCII: The Awakening of a Divine Warrior' to the Moon aboard NASA's Astrobotics Griffin-1 Lander Mission.

Cosmic Sessions is an interdisciplinary artistic project exploring the intersection of music, space, art, and science through a live musical performance accompanied by immersive visuals inspired by scientific concepts and particle data. The project will produce and publish a live‑performance audiovisual piece featuring original music and visual storytelling that translates scientific ideas and particle data into an artistic experience. MoonDAO will partially sponsor the production, with its logo displayed at the end of one of the published videos of this musical series. The project will also...

What does it actually mean for a permanent human settlement on the Moon to be sustainable, and how can we tell whether we are achieving it? MoonDAO is currently designing the systems needed for a permanent lunar settlement. Existing lunar sustainability work provides important principles, technical approaches, governance recommendations, and emerging sustainability metrics, but these still need to be translated into practical criteria that can be assessed and progressively validated as a settlement moves from design to simulation and, eventually, lunar operations. The Jordan Space Research I...

eSTEM Morocco is a Moroccan nonprofit advancing STEAM education and digital inclusion for youth aged 8 to 18. From December 11 to 13, 2026, we are hosting the Morocco Social Impact Summit (MSIS) 2026 in Rabat, a first‑of‑its‑kind international summit expecting 3,000+ visitors, 18+ countries, 50+ exhibitors, 15+ speakers and 20+ workshops and conferences around social innovation, inclusion and impact investment. MoonDAO's own Chris Sembroski is a confirmed MSIS 2026 speaker, alongside Yasmine El Baggari, founder of Voyaj and an existing MoonDAO partner. We are asking MoonDAO for a $2,125 grant ...

### A lunar settlement will need rules that hold for years and still adapt, leadership that can shift as situations change, and knowledge that passes cleanly from one generation of settlers to the next. Kathak, one of India's major classical dance forms, has its own answers to each: - ### Rules that hold and adapt: dancers and musicians keep a shared rhythm cycle while improvising within it. - ### Leadership that shifts: in many performances, the lead passes between dancer and drummer in real time. - ### Knowledge that passes on: the form has been handed from teacher to student for centurie...

The Inspired 24 requests financial support from MoonDAO to clear outstanding equipment and educational software liabilities from establishing our human spaceflight preparation courses. We built custom suit operations instruction and sea survival modules to give civilian candidates authentic experience handling pressure suits operations and water egress scenarios. Removing our initial startup debt stabilizes our financial baseline, allowing us to lower tuition rates and offer full scholarships to underrepresented spacefarers. This investment directly builds public training infrastructure, advan...

The Sentinel Bio+ project combines efforts from San Jose State University, San Diego State University, and the San Diego Space Institute. The goal is to create a constellation of satellites each equipped with a science payload. For now, the senior project team at San Jose State University is focused on creating a FlatSat, a bench testing configuration, that helps with testing of the design. The team is currently limited to one working FlatSat, which limits the amount of testing they are able to accomplish. With this project proposal the senior students at SJSU are hoping to receive funding tha...

The Lunar Ledger is a neutral, shared record of lunar missions, run by the Open Lunar Foundation, a nonprofit. The ledger currently has 6 signatories including major aeronautical corporations operating in cis‑lunar space including Firefly and iSpace and Astrolab. The ledger is currently in beta but is actively being used by several of the major lunar operators to share information via invited accounts. Open Lunar's vision is to make the Ledger more accessible to all operators and to allow access to non‑proprietary information to the broad public. This project begins our first step along that ...

Space analog simulations are essential for understanding and preparing for conditions, restrictions and requirements that we need to consider for living and working on the Moon or on Mars. They let us test technology and procedures for future space missions, explore difficulties and new ideas. Analog space suits help investigate materials, components as well as structural and operational architecture that makes a suit function in the space environment and replicate the technological and physical demands for moving and working on lunar or planetary surfaces. The OeWF (Austrian Space Forum) has...

Space radiation from solar storms is like a dangerous "invisible storm" that can hurt astronauts on the Moon and compromise entire space missions. I want to provide guidelines on how to design a simple, safe "storm shelter" built into a lunar surface habitat, where astronauts can quickly go inside during a solar storm to stay protected. This project will use NASA's radiation simulation tools and my extensive expertise from years of research funded by NASA and show MoonDAO how space radiation protection research is performed to clear common misunderstandings that are hurting space technology de...

In a sealed off-world base, human survival depends directly on automated life-support systems and artificial intelligence. This project takes space philosopher Frank White's concept of Contelligence (the integration of consciousness and intelligence across biological and synthetic systems) and turns it into a clear, usable set of operational guidelines for human–AI teamwork. Rather than treating advanced AI and habitat robots merely as expendable tools, this research establishes practical ground rules for shared decision-making, mutual care, and crisis triage. Using qualitative analysis and in...

The MoonDAO Open Space Academy is an open-source web app built to make space engineering and lunar settlement design easy for everyone. Instead of reading through dense technical PDFs and complex manuals, members can use simple interactive tools right in their browser. Anyone can quickly test and simulate crew living spaces, life support needs, and DeSci funding models. While immediately supporting MoonDAO's Settlement Design phase, this platform provides long-term simulation infrastructure for future mission testing, crew selection, and base operations, serving as a free public good for ongoi...

Investigates the potentional of magnet spring of my invention to elevate scalar and minimal impellers to the air like levitating magnets with an simple actuator. On board machinery to going to the moon . Realize in small words Sattelites for maintenance and carry water and others materials food for people at large scale . Construct this to small size to scale forces to high potential .