The private ownership of outer space is not practically possible. However, gifting websites ‘sell pieces of moon land’ and provide ‘certification’ to those willing to ‘buy’ them.(Image/News18)
The man also said that the Moon holds a special place in both of their hearts and thereby on his wife’s first birthday as a married couple, he couldn’t think of any better gift than this
After the success of Chandrayaan 3 mission, a man from West Bengal’s Jhargram district gifted his wife a plot of land on the occasion of her birthday. The man, Sanjay Mahato who promised to bring the moon to his wife before marrying her bought one acre of land on the moon worth Rs 10,000.
Speaking to India Today, Mahato said he and his wife got married in last April after a long courtship period. He had promised to bring her the Moon but couldn’t fulfil it earlier. He found the occasion of her wife’s first birthday post marriage to be the perfect time to gift her a plot on the moon.
He bought the land through Luna Society International with the help of one of his friends. “I brought one acre of land on the Moon for her,” Mahato said, while holding on to a registration paper which had ‘Registered claim and deed for lunar property’ written on it. He further said that the whole process took about a year to complete.
The man also said that the Moon holds a special place in both of their hearts and thereby on his wife’s first birthday as a married couple, he couldn’t think of any better gift than this.
The private ownership of outer space is not practically possible. However, gifting websites ‘sell pieces of moon land’ and provide ‘certification’ to those willing to ‘buy’ them. Several previous instances have also shown the interest of Indians in buying acres of land on the Moon.
Previously in the year 2020, a man from Rajasthan’s Ajmer gifted his wife three acres of land on the Moon on the occasion of their eight wedding anniversary.
Late actor Sushant Singh Rajput also bought a piece of lunar land on the far side of the Moon in the year 2018. The land that he bought was in a region called the Mare Muscoviense, or the “Sea of Muscovy”.
India on August 23 scripted history as ISRO’s ambitious third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3’s Lander Module (LM) touched down on the lunar surface, making it only the fourth country to accomplish the feat, and first to reach the uncharted south pole of Earth’s only natural satellite.