Jess is running solo today to bring you a story on a stormy evening at the Johnson Space Center, NASA's elite training center. Thad Roberts with the help of some friends pull off the most audacious heist in NASA’s history, stealing an entire safe of moon rocks and other valuables only to be caught red-handed, with the help of a Belgium veteran rockhound named Axel and the FBI in an elaborate sting operation that the four amateur thieves never saw coming.

References:

NASA. “Lunar Rocks and Soils from Apollo Missions.” Curator.jsc.nasa.gov, 16 Aug. 2023,curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/#:~:text=Between%201969%20and%201972%20six

NASAeClips. “Our World: The Stories Moon Rocks Tell.” YouTube, 25 Oct. 2023, www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7U1EjDotYQ&t=64s. Accessed 19 June 2024.

“Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story behind the Most Audacious Heist in History: Mezrich, Ben: 9780307741349: Amazon.com: Books.” Amazon.com, 2024, www.amazon.com/Sex-Moon-Amazing-Audacious-History/dp/0307741346. Accessed 19 June 2024.

NASA EClips Episode – Our World: The Stories Moon Rocks Tell - NASA. www.nasa.gov/stem-content/nasa-eclips-episode-our-world-the-stories-moon-rocks-tell/. Accessed 19 June 2024.

CBS News. “Man Steals Moon Rocks for Love.” YouTube, 10 July 2011, www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxkaKu_Oof0. Accessed 19 June 2024.

Museum, Cleveland. “A Lunar Gem | Cleveland Museum of Natural History.” Cmnh.org, 2024, www.cmnh.org/in-the-news/science-blog/june-2018/a-lunar-gem. Accessed 19 June 2024.

TEDx Talks. “TEDxBoulder - Thad Roberts - Visualizing Eleven Dimensions.” YouTube, 28 Dec. 2010, www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSz5BjExs9o. Accessed 14 Apr. 2021.

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