Nobody on Earth is legally allowed to own the Moon, and yet one man claims to have sold more than 600 million acres of it

Nobody on Earth is legally allowed to own the Moon, and yet one man claims to have sold more than 600 million acres of it

His name is Dennis Hope. He lives in Rio Vista, California. In 1980, having recently divorced his wife and worked his way through most of his savings, he was sitting in a car outside a shopping centre one afternoon when he looked up at the Moon and had the specific commercial thought that has now, four and a half decades later, made him unusually famous. What if he sold it? Hope was not a lawyer. He was not an astronomer, an aerospace engineer, …