In 2002, a NASA intern stole a 600-pound safe containing $21 million in Moon rocks to give his girlfriend, then an online sale led him into an FBI trap |
[ad_1] The Moon has been romanticised for centuries, but few people have ever tried to give someone a piece of it. In 2002, that idea became part of an extraordinary theft at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center, where an intern helped remove a safe containing Apollo lunar samples and other irreplaceable scientific material. The stolen collection…