FBI Arrests 4 College Interns For Stealing Lunar Materials

Posted by Hemos on Monday July 22, 2002 @10:31PM from the striking-a-blow-for-profits dept.

An anonymous reader "Today, the fourth member of a group of college interns working at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston turned herself in after being charged with conspiracy to steal government property. Click2Houston.com has an article with a video feed covering many details of the case. Apparently, three of the alleged theives went to Florida and tried to sell, online, the 5 oz. of moon rocks and meteorite material they lugged out of the JSC in a 600lb case. Here's another article from the Houston Chronicle."

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Re:Where is the news? by UM_Maverick · 2002-07-23 01:12 · Score: 4, Informative

Not exactly...it was 2-8K per GRAM, not per ounce. At 28.4 grams per ounce, this becomes $568K-$2.2 million. So yeah, it really is a million-dollar heist.

Also, the FBI didn't find it themselves...they were tipped off by "a belgian rock hound"

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