In the coming months, an unguided SpaceX rocket will strike the Moon at extraordinary speed, carving a permanent crater into a surface that preserves every human mark for millennia. The event itself is unremarkable in scale, yet it illuminates a profound absence: humanity has accelerated into the lunar age without constructing the legal and ethical architecture to govern what we do there. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty declared the Moon a commons for all humankind, but left unanswered the harder question of who speaks for that commons when a private company, by accident or design, reshapes it for