The Celestial Bureaucracy Crisis
When NASA’s Artemis program landed its first humans on the lunar surface, it didn’t go down as expected—literally. The mission controllers spent three crucial hours not on landing procedures, but on completing Form 42B: “Moon Landing Consent Form (International Space Law Edition).”
According to a leaked NASA document, the landing craft was only permitted to touch down after receiving written confirmation from the Moon Treaty Office that Earth’s gravitational pull wouldn’t be “emotionally offended” by the mission.