Nepal, June 22 -- Who owns the moon?

To answer this, we must acknowledge that countries own all the territory that is within their jurisdiction. All land, whether public or private, belongs to the government or the state through a concept called 'Eminent domain', where the government can take private property for public use. Similarly, all the airspace of the country, which is the portion of the sky that lies directly above a country, is also under the direct control of the said country. Article 1 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, 1944, clearly establishes this principle.

Initially, however, countries had the 'Open Skies theory' which argued that airspace should be free for all humanity to use. It was after World War I ...