A Space Oddity Inside Asgardia: Why Thousands of Brits — Including Celebs — Are Joining The World’s First ‘Space Kingdom’

THE SUN: A Space Oddity Inside Asgardia: Why Thousands of Brits — Including Celebs — Are Joining The World’s First ‘Space Kingdom’

George Harrison is a feature writer for The Sun Online, a self-admitted Space Nerd, an Asgardian Citizen, and he recently wrote an article about Asgardia. While the article highlights some of the challenges the nation faces, it also pays credit to the seriousness of the project and the notable people it has attracted:

“It sounds like something out of a sci-fi film, but it’s a totally serious project, and the new country’s founders are even trying to get Asgardia recognised by the UN.”

As we know, the dream is to recruit the “most creative” people on Earth as Asgardian citizens and then leave the planet behind forever — giving citizens a safe haven from nuclear war, drought or other environmental catastrophes here. As a bit of a space geek, George couldn’t resist applying: “I never took a gap year and I’d always fancied doing a bit of travelling — and what destination could be more adventurous than the final frontier?”

Some people have criticised Asgardia’s goals for being too ambitious, however — the nation has already achieved a string of successes. It has a flag, a coat of arms, a national anthem, a head of nation, a parliament, and a satellite in orbit.

In addition to it’s past success, Asgardia is well on the way to establishing its government, and launching a cryptocurrency known as SOLAR. With only 25 years to make ‘significant progress’ towards Asgardia’s vision of habitable space-stations, there is a lot of work to be done but there is no lack of devoted Asgardians to carry it out.

See what Harrison had to say about Asgardia by reading the full article from THE SUN source.