Revealed: How multi-million dollar NASA moon rock heist was an inside job

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By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 05:08 EST, 9 May 2012



A new British documentary is set to reveal the incredible story behind the multi-million dollar moon rock heist at NASA - and how it was an inside job.

In July 2002 'physics genius' Thad Roberts and three accomplices pulled off perhaps the greatest ever theft in NASA history at the Johnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas.

Using their NASA IDs Roberts, and one female partner in crime, slipped into the centre at night stealing a 600lb safe containing moon rocks from every Apollo mission.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2141728/Revealed-How-multi-million-dollar-NASA-moon-rock-heist-inside-job-conducted-physics-geniuses.html

[ret5hd]

1. So, a "genius" tried to sell VERY unique stolen items on the internet...and gets caught...

and he is still referred to as a "genius".

Dumbass would be a more apt term.

[Gman]

2. You got that right

No different than stealing the Mona Lisa and putting it on Craig's List.

[kentauros]

3. In other words, greedy idiots with no sense of history.

And certainly no concept that some things are not only national treasures, but of and for the world.

[Duppers]

4. "Genius"?! Ha! These were not NASA employees but naive, sociopathic interns.

You should see some of the 'cat-drug-in' interns but to call these particular kids geniuses is a quite a stretch.


They were crooks.

This story was also covered on a U.S. tv exposé and in many online sources, such as

http://gizmodo.com/5242736/how-an-intern-stole-nasas-moon-rocks

[eppur_se_muova]

5. This aired a few weeks ago on Nat Geo ...

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/explorer/episode-guide/

unless it's a different documentary.