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NASA RAIDS a 75 year old grandmother over moon rock!
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The Deplorable Astromut |
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This happened in 2011. The lady tried to sell it for $1.7 million. Definitely trafficking in stolen goods.  Wow, yeah, that definitely puts it in perspective. "Just trying to feed her grandkids" and become an instant millionaire, sure, no selfish motives there... ...
She did not know what she was doing was illegal and they should have just told her and took it and ended the story.
Now they have a stain on their books and her in her britches.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74716128 It doesn't take much searching online to realize that it's illegal to try to sell moon rocks from the Apollo program, no matter who your dead husband says he got it from. She doesn't get any sympathy from me. She's not the only person out there who's received NASA property of questionable legality from dead family members. It's never a good idea to try to sell NASA property. Especially for $1.7 million lol. [ link to www.space.com] How is that rock NASA property or stolen? Because NASA collected it from the moon, it's not a lunar meteorite, it's a lunar rock from the Apollo program. They own it. If someone were willing to pay that much, what concern is that of a government agency? Free market right?
Quoting: ACBlack market, not free market. It belongs to NASA, not to her, not to her late husband. All I see is a corrupt agency pursuing damage control rather than have another "Dutch Rock" incident to tarnish their fairy tale
Quoting: ACNASA didn't give Drees any rock. He got it via the state department, allegedly. That piece of petrified wood is quite different from any of NASA's moon rocks.
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