For one year MoonDAO has been quietly and diligently working to broker an agreement between China and the USA to send the first Chinese National to space from US soil.
This was not our community’s goal from the beginning, our community simply wanted to pool our funds together to send a normal person to space. We thought it would be fun. After pooling our money together we got in contact with Blue Origin, and then we randomly selected a member via a free to enter sweepstakes.
He happened to be from China, and this came as a big shock since China and the US have a very adversarial relationship when it comes to space. The US has never sent a Chinese National to space, let alone an everyday citizen of China.
Some might ask, why is this important? Well, China and the USA are leading our future in space, but they have very different visions for our future. Rockets happen to be intercontinental ballistic missiles pointed towards exploration rather than destruction. With our current trajectory, we are more likely to point the rockets down instead of up.
Our world today is incredibly divided, but you can approach any child, in any nation in the world, and they can agree that looking up into the night sky and wondering if we’ll ever explore the stars is inspiring. It gives us hope, and we need hope. We need things that unite us.
On three separate occasions we brought our case forward to a US visa officer in Beijing to allow our astronaut to come to the USA. On each occasion we were rejected without explanation.
Our astronaut has three loving daughters, a wife, a job, a house, and plenty of reasons to ensure that he won’t stay in the USA. He is not a migrant risk.
In fact, the Chinese government themselves wrote a letter of support for our Astronaut, and ensured he would not be a migrant risk. You’d think it might be China that would be blocking cooperation, but unfortunately, it’s the USA.
We told our Astronaut that we wouldn’t give up on him. It’s unfair that someone can’t go to space just because of US immigration blocking him because he’s from China. Because of these imaginary lines drawn on a rock floating in space, we can’t collaborate.
Our astronaut has told us before that he’s always been unlucky his whole life, so he was surprised when he was chosen out of 8,000 people who entered.
Our astronaut’s name is Yan Kejun (@yan_kejun). If you’re in agreement that the US should cooperate to send Yan into Space please retweet, it’s a small thing, but I hope we can make some noise about this. #YanToSpace
If you’d like to take part in making this historic flight possible, we could use your support.
We will collect all the tweets and messages from people who tweet with the #YanToSpace all over the world to demonstrate the impact of this flight on the world.
If this message resonated with you, we’d love to know why, please share why this would be impactful.
Let’s get these two powerful Nations to collaborate on exploration instead of division through war ☮️✌️