NASA sting terrifies woman, 74

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(AP) -- The elaborate mission to recover a moon rock led NASA agents to one of the most down-to-earth places: a Denny's restaurant in Riverside County.
But at the end of the sting operation, agents were left holding a speck of lunar dust smaller than a grain of rice and a 73-year-old suspect who was terrified by armed officials.

Five months after NASA investigators and local agents swooped into the restaurant and hailed their operation as a cautionary tale for anyone trying to sell national treasure, no charges have been filed, NASA isn't talking and the case appears stalled.

The target, Joann Davis, a grandmother who says she was trying to raise money for her sick son, asserts the lunar material was rightfully hers, having been given to her space-engineer husband by Neil Armstrong in the 1970s.

"It's a very upsetting thing," Davis, now 74, told The Associated Press. "It's very detrimental, very humiliating, all of it a lie."

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http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-nasa-woman.html

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1. This woman's actions aside, the story of how poorly treated the samples of lunar rock were...

...by the government is, in short, astounding. The tip of the iceberg is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_and_missing_moon_rocks">here.

PB