{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"MR HANSoN \"The Man Who Sold The Moon\"","description":"How a Broke Vacuum Salesman Became the Solar System's Most Controversial Real Estate Mogul—And Why His $12 Million Empire Might Make Him History's Greatest Visionary\n\nIn April 1980, Dennis Hope's car broke down on Highway 101. He was $400 behind on bills, freshly divorced, and staring at an eviction notice. That night, standing in a puddle with 47 cents in his pocket, he looked up at the moon and asked a question that would change his life: \"Who the hell owns that thing?\"\n\nWhat happened next forced the United Nations, NASA, and international courts to confront a legal loophole that still exists today—a gap in space law big enough to fly a rocket through.\n\nThe 46-minute deep dive you're about to hear reveals:How Hope discovered a critical flaw in the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty that prohibited nations from owning celestial bodies—but said nothing about individualsThe moment he walked into a San Francisco courthouse and filed paperwork claiming ownership of all 9.6 billion acres of lun...","author_name":"The MR HANSoN Podcast","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5171586-the-mr-hanson-podcast","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43677663/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}