Buy a Plot of the Moon From the Man Who Decided to Be Its Landlord
Meet Dennis M. Hope , 65 , of Gardnerville , Nevada . Dennis owns the Moon . AsThe New York Timesexplains , Dennis claims to have file a contract of possession with the United Nations . It ’s all effectual , Guy ! You see , theOuter Space Treaty of 1967reads : No nation by annexation shall have sovereignty or ascendance over any of the orbiter bodies . And our lawyer - cum - enterpriser of a Moon landlord remark that no where in them fancy legal word was there any honorable mention of the individual , noting that “ this is the loophole ” that allowed him to follow his airy dreams ....