ROCKS collected during the Apollo moon landings are back in US government hands after the arrest of four people charged with stealing them from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
The gang, three of whom were students with summer jobs at Johnson, made off with a 270-kilogram safe containing some 53 lunar rocks and 165 meteorite fragments.
The scoundrels were caught when they tried to close a deal to sell the goods, having posted an ad on the Internet weeks earlier for “the world’s largest private Apollo rock collection”. A suspicious meteorite collector had alerted FBI agents to…
