As humanity prepares to establish a permanent foothold in lunar orbit, the unglamorous but essential work of celestial traffic management has begun. Researchers from Texas A&M, NASA, and Purdue have developed the mathematical framework that will govern how spacecraft safely share the moon's gravitational neighborhood around the planned Gateway station. Like the invisible rules that keep cities functioning, these orbital protocols may never make headlines — yet they form the quiet infrastructure upon which all future human presence beyond Earth depends.