SERA Opens Space Seat To Nigerians In Global Democratic Astronaut Selection

Nigeria volition prime its adjacent abstraction typical done an expanded antiauthoritarian astronaut enactment process, launched contiguous by the Space Exploration & Research Agency (SERA).

The inaugural promotes community-selected abstraction practice for Nigeria, India, Indonesia, Brazil, and Thailand, with citizens voting for their representatives done a blockchain-powered platform.

The programme transforms abstraction entree from an exclusive organization enactment to 1 that involves nationalist participation. Unlike accepted astronaut programs requiring subject backgrounds oregon precocious degrees, SERA’s Mission Control level connected Telegram enables anyone from spouse nations to use and vie for assemblage support.

SERA co-founder, Joshua Skurla, successful a property statement, signed, by the director, Media and Corporate Communications, National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Dr. Felix Ale, said, “After the occurrence of SERA’s inaugural abstraction formation successful 2022, we’re scaling antiauthoritarian abstraction entree to 5 nations simultaneously, positive a planetary seat,” said “Nigeria’s spot means idiosyncratic from immoderate inheritance tin correspond their federation successful abstraction based connected assemblage choice.”

The attack builds connected SERA’s demonstrated occurrence successful sending Victor Hespanha, selected from the SERA community, to go South America’s archetypal civilian astronaut connected Blue Origin’s New Shepard. That ngo validated some the enactment process and planetary appetite for assemblage information successful abstraction exploration. For Nigeria, this represents a historical accidental to physique connected the country’s caller achievements successful space.

While Nigeria has pursued abstraction exploration done its NASRDA and witnessed Chief Owolabi Salis’s self-funded Blue Origin flight, SERA offers the archetypal community-selected civilian astronaut pathway.

“This concern aligns with our imaginativeness of expanding Nigeria’s abstraction beingness beyond satellites to quality spaceflight,” said Dr. Matthew Olumide Adepoju, Director General of NASRDA. “SERA’s antiauthoritarian attack ensures Nigerian practice reflects our divers population’s aspirations.”

Dr. Anne Agi, President of Learnspace Foundation, which facilitated the concern betwixt SERA and NASRDA, emphasized the broader mission. “We’re gathering bridges betwixt communities, institutions, and manufacture to guarantee Nigeria’s travel to quality spaceflight is not lone historical but inclusive and connected to the planetary question for shared exploration.”

The enactment process operates done SERA Mission Control, a Telegram mini-app built connected TON Blockchain for transparent voting. Candidates implicit challenges to gain “SpaceDust” points and vie for their nation’s guaranteed seat. The blockchain infrastructure prevents manipulation portion enabling planetary information done the accessible Telegram platform.

“We’re opening abstraction to radical who ne'er imagined it possible,” said Sam Hutchison, SERA co-founder. “A teacher successful Abuja oregon a contented creator successful Lagos tin present vie for Nigeria’s abstraction spot done assemblage engagement, not conscionable world credentials.”

Six seats are reserved for the upcoming Blue Origin mission—five allocated to spouse nations, with a sixth unfastened to citizens from immoderate country. The programme includes a Science Platform wherever communities tin taxable and ballot connected experiments, creating decentralized probe opportunities.

SERA addresses the practice spread successful abstraction exploration. While astir 800 radical person traveled to abstraction since 1961, nary from Nigeria, India, Indonesia, Thailand, oregon astir processing nations person flown arsenic community-selected civilian astronauts contempt representing billions of planetary citizens.

“SERA Mission Control represents abstraction exploration reimagined for societal media users,” said Max Crown, CEO of TON Foundation. “By launching connected TON wrong Telegram, SERA transforms abstraction question from a distant conception into an interactive, community-driven experience.”

The level represents 1 of the astir ambitious user applications built connected TON Blockchain, showcasing applicable Web3 applications beyond fiscal uses. Transparent voting addresses fairness concerns portion gamified engagement drives sustained participation.

Applications unfastened instantly done the SERA Mission Control Telegram app, with voting and enactment timelines to beryllium announced. Selected astronauts volition acquisition modular Blue Origin information grooming earlier their spaceflight missions.