Posted on 05/14/2025 4:50:58 PM PDT by algore
Thad Roberts was a 25-year-old intern at NASA's Johnson Space Center when he promised to give his girlfriend the moon.
But unlike so many young lovers before him, he actually delivered on that promise.
In 2002, Roberts enlisted his girlfriend Tiffany Fowler (who was also a NASA intern at the time) and another intern named Shae Saur to help him break into Johnson Space Center and steal 17 pounds of moon rocks worth up to $21 million.
The trio used their NASA IDs to slip into the space center after hours and make off with a 600-pound safe containing moon rocks brought back from every Apollo mission.
But what Roberts and Fowler did next was even more shocking.
Immediately after the heist, the couple scattered the moon rocks across Roberts' bed and had sex on top of them.
The story has recently resurfaced on Instagram, where one user posted: 'First man to ever say 'I'll give you the moon' and did. A real one right there mate!!!!'
Wild as it may seem now, the stunt triggered an international manhunt after the group tried to sell the stolen samples online for a hefty price — and Roberts ended up serving 10 years in prison.
Following the romantic gesture, Roberts and his accomplices listed the moon rocks for $2,000 to $8,000 per gram on the website of the Mineralogy Club of Antwerp, Belgium.
A Belgian rock collector spotted the online posting and contacted the FBI who concocted a plan to catch the thieves.
'I think they're trying to trick me. You know, just catch me,' Roberts was caught saying on tape.
But despite his suspicions, the audio recordings of the meeting suggested that Roberts and his accomplices totally fell for the FBI's ruse.
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Shouldn’t those rocks just be smelted for the Aluminum?
stole that idea from a KDrama...
If you promise her the moon, you are not supposed to enlist her to help steal it.
Ping!.....................
Remember: “strippers, red heads, girls named Tiffany …”
Bad link. It only goes to the index page and this story is not there.
They had sex on the moon rocks? Ouch!
Why is the “unthinkable” act the first act I thought of?
I’ve never stolen moon ricks, so I can judge him for stealing moon rocks.
you posted a generic link to the home page of DM; here’s the actual article link:
[learn how to post the correct link when you post]
One small step for man, one giant leap for morons.
More brazen than Gus Grissom’s “Mercury dimes” LOL
Decades ago, at a Mineral Symposium, I offered Harrison Schmitt a million dollars for even a tiny piece of moon rock.
He turned me down.
Did accept my invitation to dinner though. We ate at Howard Johnson’s. Kind of slumming for a sitting U.S. Senator and famous astronaut, but it was in a small town with few choices.
I think it’s a damn shame that Hollywood BS movie and the asshole writer Tom Wolfe turned Gus Grissom into a joke. Gus was one hell of a man, the best engineer among the astronauts, and so well regarded by NASA that if he hadn’t been killed in Apollo I, he and not Neil Armstrong, would have been the first man to walk on the moon.
Tom Wolfe was an asshole.
Pretty hefty charges for an event staged on a Hollywood set. /s
“Unthinkable” seems to be the Daily Mail’s newest clickbait word.
All of the so-called moon rocks from the Apollo missions have been proven to be petrified wood from the earth. One more reason to doubt the moon landings
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