IM-2 Athena Landing Pods Inscribed with Employees Names: Moon Property Rights Implications?
Now in transit, Athena to land ~160 km from Moon South Pole 6 Mar; 2 of 6 landing feet inscribed with 315 IM employee names; 1 foot has IM logo; 3 have “Intuitive Machines” / “Ad Lunam”: 1 with Grace Hopper / IM-2 mission patches, 1 with Texas outline / Houston star, 1 with Maryland / Glen Burnie and Arizona / Phoenix; IM-1 Odysseus lander had similar feet; There is a clear need to define lunar property rights – frequent public-private missions to Moon surface and start of permanent lunar operations is now; Outer Space Treaty of 1967 and ‘Moon Agreement’ of 1987 likely starting points