The long-awaited event is to take place in late December, two days prior to Christmas Day. But DOGE will not be the only crypto to be taken to the Moon this year.
Back in 2015, the Dogecoin community began raising funds for the future space mission of taking DOGE to the natural satellite of Earth. Now, they have teamed up with Astrobotic to make their dream come true.
Astrobotic is a space company owned by its employees and it is focused on developing various supplementary things for spacecraft – advanced navigation, operation, power, testing, and computing systems.
They deliver various cargoes to the Moon for governments, corporations and those individuals who can afford this.
The company emerged in 2007 and is headquartered in Mojave, California and Pittsburgh, PA. Up to now, Astrobotic has successfully completed two Moon missions with landing. The mission of the company is to make space available to the humanity.
This time, Astrobotic is carrying NASA’s and some other payloads to deliver them to the Moon. However, aside from those, according to the Payload Manifest, there will be a DHL MoonBox. It will contain various “payloads from around the world will be stored aboard Peregrine on the Moon for centuries to come. From photographs and novels to student work and a piece of Mount Everest”.
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However, later Musk revealed that SpaceX was getting ready for a mission to take a satellite to a lunar orbit and that mission, according to Musk, was paid for in Dogecoin by Geometric Energy Corporation (GEC)
Musk called it DOGE-1 Lunar Mission. It is expected to launch at some point this year but it has been constantly delayed for various reasons so far.
This article was originally published on U.Today
Source: Cryptocurrency - investing.com
