Armed NASA agents raid Denny’s

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Oct 252011
 

You read that right.

NASA agents raid Denny’s in undercover sting – after woman, 74, tries to sell moon dust that was gift from Neil Armstrong

Short form… 74-year-old woman has a tiny speck of moon rock that was given to her late husband by Neil Armstrong. Her son is sick, so to raise money she did the obvious thing and looked for a buyer for the moon rock. But it turns out that while it’s legal to possess an Apollo moon rock, it’s illegal to *sell* an Apollo moon rock, as NASA considers each and every speck brought back to be government property. So armed NASA agents swooped in on the elderly miscreant at a Denny’s.
Feh.
Forty years later, it’s a freakin’ tragedy that those few bits of rock brought back by the Apollo astronauts remain the *only* bits of moon rock brought back by astronauts. Rocks with no real intrinsic value are considered “national treasures,” when, really, they should be no more “treasure” than beach sand from Florida should have been Spanish “national treasure” in 1532.
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  3 Responses to “Armed NASA agents raid Denny’s”

  1. Jordan says:
    October 25, 2011 at 9:59 pm

    I think now I have heard everything, but given the ineptitude of NASA and our government, we might hear something else that even more of the wall.

    Let’s hope the woman is smart enough to hire herself a good attorney. She might be coming away with a few cool million dollars.

    This shows why NASA went down the tubes.

  2. Bruce says:
    October 25, 2011 at 10:36 pm

    Anything for the government to shove up your…….

  3. Jeff Wright says:
    October 28, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    Hey, I like the idea of armed NASA agents.

    Now just to get them to do wet jobs on Lou Friedman with his transparent SLS bashing articles, anti-space politicians, moon hoax believers, etc.

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