In a space payload mission envisioned by Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic, a physical Dogecoin (DOGE) token may make it to Earth’s moon, the Dogecoin developers announced in an X post on Thursday.
“Astrobotic plans to send a physical Dogecoin to the moon in the DHL Moonbox via ULA’s Vulcan Centaur Rocket on 12/23/2023,” Dogecoin developers said. “Funded by our community in 2015.”
NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, together with 21 payloads (cargo) from businesses, governments, and universities are being transported by Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One (PM1).
As part of a plan unveiled in May by cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, the same mission is also intended to carry a real bitcoin token.Additionally, a copy of the Genesis Block—the first block of bitcoin (BTC) to be mined—will be included, as it was ordered by Bitcoin Magazine.
The last attempt by Dogecoin to reach the moon was a 2022 plan for a SpaceX trip that would be fully financed using DOGE tokens.At the time of its commissioning, the Canadian business Geometric Energy Corp. claimed that the mission was the first commercial lunar payload in history to be fully funded by DOGE.The mission was delayed, nevertheless, and its new launch date is January 2024.
In the meantime, DOGE prices have increased by 12% over the last day along with a more general rise in key