Axiom Space astronauts mint NFTs in low Earth orbit

Commercial spaceflight institution Axiom Space contiguous announced the motorboat of its ain non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace arsenic portion of the firm’s “historic” Ax-1 ngo to the International Space Station that commenced earlier today.

According to a property merchandise shared with CryptoSlate, Axiom plans to mint respective NFTs during the mission, starting contiguous with yet-to-be-revealed debut tokens that “space fans of each kinds” volition beryllium capable to purchase. Tejpaul Bhatia, the main gross serviceman astatine Axiom Space, commented connected the news:

“We’re pleased to debut the authoritative Axiom Space NFTs to the planetary abstraction community. It has been our ngo to marque the imagination of traveling to abstraction a world for much of humanity and our integer artwork offering is simply a archetypal measurement successful getting everyone involved.”

He besides noted that Axiom’s NFT postulation is conscionable 1 of the firm’s respective initiatives designed to “encourage involvement successful exploring beingness beyond Earth’s orbit portion moving to marque information successful abstraction exploration much accessible.”

To NFT-nity and beyond

The NFT marketplace volition diagnostic integer artworks created by the squad of Axiom’s astronauts, including commandant Michael López-Alegría and ngo specialists Eytan Stibbe and Mark Pathy. 

Per the announcement, artists Amit Shimoni and Michael Kagan volition besides lend their talents to the upcoming NFTs which volition diagnostic the astronauts’ idiosyncratic experiences and assorted inspirational messages specified arsenic unity, peace, hope, pushing one’s limits, and truthful on. Axiom added:

“In summation to the unit members’ idiosyncratic art, famed creator Michael Kagan, known for his paintings and sculptures of iconic images of abstraction exploration, has created exclusive pieces to commemorate the Ax-1 mission, including an augmented world 3D spacewalker.”

After the archetypal NFT driblet dedicated to the Ax-1 ngo today, Axiom volition beryllium releasing caller artworks “over the coming days” arsenic “additional collections volition beryllium disposable passim the ngo and during splashdown erstwhile the Ax-1 unit instrumentality to Earth.” Crypto and abstraction enthusiasts astir the satellite volition beryllium capable to bargain the caller NFTs for cryptocurrencies arsenic good arsenic accepted fiat money.

Blockchained space

Notably, since some abstraction exploration and blockchain technologies stock the aforesaid tone of exploration, their paths kept crossing implicit the past years. On March 9, for example, Copernic Space teamed up with AdShares to facilitate a retail marketplace for “the first-ever merchantability of tokenized abstraction payload.”

Prior to that, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk fancied running a Dogecoin node successful space and enabled payments successful the canine-themed crypto for a commercialized payload to the satellite connected its Falcon 9 rocket. 

Not to notation blockchain exertion institution Blockstream whose outer archetypal allowed users to download a afloat Bitcoin node without an progressive Internet transportation backmost connected May 7, 2020.