Synergy with Moon Village Association (and others)

Financial Entrepreneur & Space Systems Engineer

Hi Luna City team. I just joined the Luna City crew. Congrats on pushing the needle on such an important initiative!

Who am I?
Engineer and enterpreneur with 15+ years experience in the Space industry.
Have been supporting the Moon Village Association (https://moonvillageassociation.org/) and I am their Working Group lead for Moon Markets and Financial Forecasting. My background is in Space Systems Engineering but have for the past 3 years ventured into finance and banking into the context of Space economic development. My company is working on building public-benefit capital infastructure for long-term and sustainable Space development: https://www.spacevault.world

Synergies:
There are many groups working towards developing the vision of a Lunar base. The Moon Village Association is one of them, WayPaver Org. is another, and countless advocacy groups and teams around the US and the world working towards the same goal. My goal in the short term is to have the different groups start talking to each other. Too many silos in the Space industry... Together, we rise :-)

Is there a meeting (google chat, Skype, UberConference etc.) where the crew can discuss path forward and tasks?

I have an extensive array of work that I have been conducting via the MVA that I would like to discuss and share with you and hopefully we can all work together.

Regards,
Jason Aspiotis

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Suzana Bianco

Space Architect

Hi Jason, welcome to the team! Great to have someone who has been involved with lunar cities/villages for a while, I'm sure your expertise will be of great help!
We have not set up a Luna City meeting yet, but that sure is the plan, we will be setting one up soon! Meanwhile we are organizing in this forum, and we can share documents using our integrated google drive!
Can't wait to hear your ideas!

Jason Aspiotis

Financial Entrepreneur & Space Systems Engineer

Looking forward to helping as much as I can.
To the Moon!

Jason Aspiotis

Financial Entrepreneur & Space Systems Engineer

Btw, have requested access to the google file for requirements. I have a lot of thoughts (and experience) on requirements development.

Yalda Mousavinia

Co-Founder, Space Cooperative

Hello Jason! Happy to hear you are interested in helping groups and ideas converge! We would love the same, but just are in early stages of development, so a liasion like you would help us manage time. Since our forum is open and all our work will happen online, we think this is a good model to enable cross-org collaboration.

Our 2nd community meeting will be March 4th at 11am PST and I am sure we will be discussing the kick-off of Luna City there. Feel free to join and invite anyone else and we can tell you what we had in mind for how this collaborative process would work.

I upgraded you to a “Designer” on Luna City, so you should have access to add and edit files now!

Jason Aspiotis

Financial Entrepreneur & Space Systems Engineer

Thank you Yalda!

A couple of follow-on questions:
1. How do I remotely participate in the community meeting?
2. I tried to access the requirements document but received an error message from Google that Your message wasn't delivered to [email protected] because the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail.. Is that the correct admin for the google file?

Regards,
Jason

Yalda Mousavinia

Co-Founder, Space Cooperative

Hello Jason,

Details on the community meeting here, it is a virtual meeting: https://spacedecentral.net/forum/posts/community-meeting-2-sunday-march-4th-11-00-am-pst
It looks like we have some bugs with our google drive integration. Welcome to our alpha release :) That is the email associated with it, but it's complicated with how it works since our email is hosted on Zoho yet that is linked to google...

I just manually added your email linked to your account to the folder -- let me know if that works, and if it doesn't please send me a private message or email (yalda at space dot coop) with your gmail address and I'll get you sorted!

Jason Aspiotis

Financial Entrepreneur & Space Systems Engineer

It worked, thank you! :-)

Giulio Prisco

Co-Founder, Space Cooperative

Hi Jason, I also think there could be very good synergies with the Moon Village Association. We could propose practical lunar pre-settlement projects that are in line with the MVA's goals, and help finding creative answers to the #1 question where is the money?

Jason Aspiotis

Financial Entrepreneur & Space Systems Engineer

Where is the money is exactly my domain :-)

My Working Group at MVA - Moon Markets, Missions, Forecasts & Financials - is working on establishing financial engineering methods for financing a Moon Base and other critical infrastructure in beyond-Earth orbit.

I look forward to sharing more at the community event this Sunday!

Giulio Prisco

Co-Founder, Space Cooperative

Where is the money? is the key question I think. I am quite skeptical of the possibility that governments will fund the next phase of lunar exploration and the first phase of lunar colonization.

At this moment the US administration seems intentioned to do so, but if the administration changes in 2020 the lunar program will be the first to be canceled, just to score a point in the pissing contest that is today's politics.

Large corporations are only interested in government contracts. Going to space is fun, if the government pays.

Small companies don't have the money.

I think citizen groups like SC and MVA should take the lead.

Synergy with Moon Village Association (and others)

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