The official account on social media platform X published a post to announce that some physical Dogecoin will be delivered to the moon this year.
The long-awaited event will take place at the end of December, two days before Christmas Day. But DOGE won’t be the only cryptocurrency reaching the moon this year.
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In 2015, the Dogecoin community began raising funds for the future space mission of bringing DOGE to Earth’s natural satellite. Now they have partnered with Astrobotic to make their dream come true.
Astrobotic is an employee-owned space company focused on the development of various ancillary elements 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 it.
The company emerged in 2007 and is based in Mojave, California and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. So far, Astrobotic has successfully completed two lunar landing missions. The company’s mission is to make space available to humanity.
This time, Astrobotic is carrying NASA and other payloads to take to the Moon. However, apart from them, according to the Payload Manifest, there will be a DHL Moonbox. It will contain various “payloads from around the world that 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.”
BTC physical plate and BTC Genesis will rest on the moon
According to the Dogecoin team’s X post, this Moonbox will also contain some physical DOGE. The payloads will also carry “Lunar Bitcoin” for the BitMEX exchange – “A unique physical currency destined for the Moon, loaded with one Bitcoin” – and “Bitcoin Genesis Board”: “This board includes a copy of the Genesis Block, the first block of bitcoin (BTC) to extract.”
Elon Musk’s intention to take DOGE to the moon
On April 1, 2021, tech mogul and SpaceX owner Elon Musk tweeted that he will “put a literal DOGE on the literal Moon.” The community first took it as an April Fool’s Day joke.
However, Musk later revealed that SpaceX was preparing for a mission to deliver a satellite to lunar orbit, and that mission, according to Musk, was paid for in Dogecoin by Geometrica Energy Corporation (GEC).
Musk called it DOGE-1 Lunar Mission. It is expected to release sometime this year, but has been delayed time and time again for various reasons.
