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latimes: Finding lost moon rocks is his mission: After NASA’s lunar voyages, the samples were given as goodwill souvenirs to states and nations. Many have gone missing. But an investigator’s on their trail. TIL: “It is illegal for individuals, even astronauts, to own moon rocks.” Photo: Joseph Gutheinz, a retired NASA investigator and self-appointed moon rock hunter, stands before the lunar samples vault at Space Center Houston. (James Nielsen / Houston Chronicle

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Finding lost moon rocks is his mission: After NASA’s lunar voyages, the samples were given as goodwill souvenirs to states and nations. Many have gone missing. But an investigator’s on their trail.

TIL: “It is illegal for individuals, even astronauts, to own moon rocks.”

Photo: Joseph Gutheinz, a retired NASA investigator and self-appointed moon rock hunter, stands before the lunar samples vault at Space Center Houston. (James Nielsen / Houston Chronicle

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

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    CAVE JOHNSON TOOK THEM!!! (Lame joke/reference time is over…) -____-
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    When I was little I asked my dad...for Christmas. Never thought it’d be illegal to own...
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    Dat dank moon rock spliff.
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