Does the United States own the moon?

Question

seeing as they're the only ones who have bothered to go there and they have a flag up there somewhere, although apparently not visible with a telescope so theres no proof, but still do the yanks own the moon?

Answer 1

why would the americans want to own the moon, there is no sign of any oil being found. if oil is found im sure they will stake their claim by invading soon afterwards.

Answer 2

The moon contains more energy potential than the entire planet Earth. The moon dust contains Helium 3
A by product of the Sun. It burns cleaner that any nuclear or fossil fuel we now know of.
It is much easier to collect and utilize than solar power.
So should be go back to the Moon? Yes, in fact, we never should have left.
When China or other nations have unlimited power supplies and the United States does not, where does that leave us.

Answer 3

Nobody owns anything, at least not for very long anyway (75-85 yrs if your lucky).
We are born with nothing and we leave this scene with nothing. In between we attempt to amass as much money and wealth including material wealth as we can before we depart.
The moon belongs to no man. The only claimant to ownership of moon, sun, earth and indeed all bodies in space is the Creator God who made them and put them in their place.

Answer 4

no surprisingly there was a law passed that no country could claim to own the moon but it never said anything about an individual claiming it so some clever dick claimed the rights and you can now buy an acre for about 20 quid from various websites

Answer 5

For the moment no one owns the moon. Just wait till we have colonies on mars I bet the US is gonna be the first to put up a toll booth there and charge the hell out of us poor space tourists.

Answer 6

No, they don't have active patroling of the moon and any population to guard it or anything else so, they can't claim the moon. They wouldn't anyway has it would cost them millions to take advantage of anything on it. It wouldn't be efficient to do anything with it. It is a wasteland. I don't think anybody cares who it belongs to. It's not worth anything.

Answer 7

Yes they own the moon, but only the set on Area 51.

Answer 8

Nobody owns the moon

Answer 9

The US does not own the entire moon, but does own a few pieces, which are now on earth. I saw some last week, it was a rock.

Answer 10

No, the Americans do not own the moon. They just like to think they do.

Other nations, worried about their national achievements, spend their money on looking after their next generation's education or health. But the USA decided to spend their money on looking about the moon.

A generation of Americans will grow up knowing that the money that should have been spent on their education and welfare was spent on what the world called the 'space race' - America needed, for some reason, to beat the USSR, and was prepared to pay whatever it cost their country, just to beat the Ruskies.

Answer 11

On paper, NO. But for all practical purposes, yes!

Who else can even get there? And once there, sustain astronauts for any length of time? The Russians? The Chinese? Not bloody likely. If we absolutely need it, it's ours, until someone else can routinely get there.

International treaties are routinely ignored, and under pressure, "shredded," all the time, when it suits a signatory to do so, so that that "it belongs to everyone" crap is nonsense. You think that if the people of Equitorial Guinea want equal time on the moon that the US is going to back down, so they can have their turn???