Harper’s Magazine => A Place Under the Sun
From letters written to President Bush by residents of the Sauerland region of Germany in response to his January 14, 2004, announcement of United States plans to build a deep-space launch pad on the moon. The letter writers are among more than 1,200 Germans who purchased moon lots from U.S. entrepreneur Dennis Hope, who claims legal ownership of the moon under a loophole in the 1967 United Nations Outer Space Treaty.
Remember when we used to laugh about people buying “swampland in Florida?”