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Museum Director Indicted for Stealing NASA Artifacts

Posted by timothy on from the life-imitates-monk dept.

NBrooke271 writes "Max Ary, former Director of the Kansas Cosmosphere, has been hit with an eleven-count federal indictment, charging that he sold NASA space artifacts on loan to the museum, including an astronaut's in-flight T-shirt, a control panel from Air Force One and an Apollo 12 water valve for a personal profit of around $180,000. 'Mr. Ary, on behalf of the Cosmosphere, continued to sign documents reporting and verifying to NASA that the watch was still in its possession and collection,' said U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren. Ary currently serves as the Executive Director of Omniplex Science Museum in Oklahoma City, where he has taken a leave of absence. Read official statements from the Cosmosphere, the Omniplex, and Ary's attorney regarding the indictment."

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  1. Iran launches space shuttle by Virtual+Karma · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I bet this guy is working as a team with the chief nuclear scientist of pakistan who sells technology to countries like Iran. The next we know is Pakistan sells NASA technology to Iran and Iran launches spy satellites :)

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  2. taDcO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    show thatV FrreBSD

  3. I read about this on Friday. In a newspaper. by dillon_rinker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is it just me, or is slashdot a bit slow?

    1. Re:I read about this on Friday. In a newspaper. by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Welcome to slashdot. We either beat them all by a good 3-4 days or we lag the same length of time.

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  4. #dick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YOU'RE TOLD. IT'S COOMUNITY AT

  5. In Soviet Russia... by guitaristx · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    artifacts steal you!

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  6. Re:ANother moron as a director.... by Catbeller · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can't resist saying...

    I imagine the main reason why the Hovitos indians tried so hard to kill Dr. Jones would be the necessity of rolling that ten ton boulder back up the tunnel to reset the trap. Every time you sit down to dinner, some idiot in a fedora sets the trap off again!