Moon Rock

74-Year-Old Woman Terrified During NASA Moon Rock Sting

AP | Posted 12.24.2011

By THOMAS WATKINS, Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- The elaborate mission to recover a moon rock led NASA agents to one of the most down-to-earth pl...

Moon Rock Sting Terrifies 74-Year-Old Grandmother

AP | By THOMAS WATKINS | Posted 12.24.2011

LOS ANGELES -- 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...

Space History in DC: The Space Window

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 10.03.2011

Zoe P. Strassfield

In the course of spending five weeks living in a city like Washington DC that's so popular with tourists, I couldn't help but think about the way different people have different reasons for visiting a site or attraction.

NASA Busts Woman Selling $1.7M 'Moon Rock'

AP | ROBERT JABLON | Posted 11.16.2011

LOS ANGELES — She promised the moon, for a sky-high price. He wasn't buying. A woman who tried to sell what she said was a rare piece of moon r...

Moon Rock Story a Moral for the Ethics Commission

Luis Toro | Posted 05.25.2011

Luis Toro

When former Governor John Vanderhoof left office in 1975, he couldn't find anyone willing to store a moon rock, so he kept it in his Grand Junction office for years.

'Moon Rock' Displayed In Dutch Museum Is Really Petrified Wood

AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 05.25.2011

AMSTERDAM — It's not green cheese, but it might as well be. The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock ...