Robbery like a movie in NASA: Moon stones to give it to her lover – Cyprus Newspaper
NASA’s Thad Roberts employee promised to his girlfriend, « He will give the Moon » was a 25 -year -old trainee at the Johnson Space Center of the space agency.
But unlike many previous people, he really managed to fulfill this promise.
In 2002, Roberts secretly entered the Johnson Space Center with help from another trainee named Shae Saur.
They stole 7 kilos of moon stone
Here, the value of around 21 million dollars of 7 kilos of the moon stole.
Stolen stones were located in the 600 -pound case with the moon stones brought from Apollo.
But Roberts and his girlfriend did much later. The couple had sexual intercourse by scattering the stones they stole on the bed.
They tried to sell on the internet
An international investigation began upon the couple’s stolen examples at a loaded price on the internet. Roberts was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Roberts and the offensive partners, Belgium’s Mineralogy Club in the city of Antwerp Mineralogue Club’s gram of the moon stones between 2 thousand to 8 thousand dollars priced.
Operation like a movie from FBI
A Belgian rock collector noticed the sharing on the internet and contacted the FBI. The FBI also prepared a plan to capture thieves.
Trainees, moon stones ‘Orb Robinson’ as the name of the sale of the name.
The collecting collecting with the FBI aspired to the stones and organized a meeting with FBI agents with so -called relatives.
The sound recordings of the meeting showed that Roberts and the criminal partners were in the game of FBI.
They were arrested on the anniversary of Apollo 11
The FBI agents then went to a hotel room where stolen moon stones were hiding with thieves and arrested the criminals.
Ironically, the arrests took place on the 33rd anniversary of Apollo 11’s descent.
Moon stones became useless
Roberts et al. Moon stones from NASA have become scientifically useless due to pollution.
Trainees also destroyed the research notes written in close to 30 years of handwriting of a NASA scientist who was locked in the safe.
