Lunar Property: The 1967 Outer Space Treaty prohibits nations from claiming property rights on the Moon or anywhere else in space (including planets, asteroids, comets and anything else you can think of). Lunar Resources: A 1979 treaty set out guidelines for managing the Moon's natural resources, though hardly anyone signed that agreement.
A Chinese appeals court has upheld a ban on a company from selling land on the moon, ruling that "celestial bodies" could not be anyone's property, state media said on Saturday. Lunar Embassy to China, a Beijing-based company that sold plots of lunar land to individuals, sued the Beijing Administration of Industry and Commerce which revoked its business licence and fined it 50 000 yuan ($6 500) in October 2005.
A self-confessed geeky housewife said she wanted to buy a plot on the Moon after winning a million pounds (1.8 million dollars, 1.5 million euros) on a British television gameshow Sunday. Sarah Lang, 31, from Newport, south Wales, scooped the prize in the finale of Pokerface, a game of general knowledge and bluff. he mother-of-two is a huge fan of the science-fiction television and film series "Star Trek".
A Chinese company has had its license suspended after it tried to make money by selling land on the moon.
The Beijing Lunar Village Aeronautics Science and Technology Co. managed to sell large swathes of pristine lunar property before being shut down.
The company, claiming to act on behalf of an entity referred to as the Lunar Embassy in China, charged 298 yuan for each acre (0.4 hectare) on the moon.
Each new owner of lunar soil was issued a "certificate" that ensured property ownership including rights to use the land and minerals up to three kilometres underground.
Li Jie, CEO of Lunar Embassy, said that 34 clients bought 49 acres (20 hectares) of land on the moon in the first three days after his company became operational last month.