Release Date: March 4, 2012 Watch Date: May 8, 2023 "In 2000, one 'Co-op' showed an inordinate interest in the cache of moon rocks kept at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, repeatedly visiting the lab to examine them. Then the moon rocks mysteriously disappeared. Moon Rock Heist follows the trail of international intrigue surrounding the recovery of the rocks and reveals how law enforcement finally tracked down the thieves." This story would have been more at home on the History Channel than on National Geographic. It's played for laughs, it's meant to be salacious, it feels shallow and cheap. The fact that a large sample of rocks from the moon were stolen, that they were contaminated and had their scientific value greatly depreciated, that a man's life work was simply thrown into the trash and the scientific value of what he was working on is lost to time are mentioned as mere afterthoughts. Because Thad says he had sex on the samples ...
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