Washington, October 29: A detained US scientist, who played a key role in India’s ‘Chandrayaan’ mission in finding evidence of water on the Moon, had sought to sell top US secrets to Israel for a sum of USD 2 million, federal prosecutors have charged.
52-year-old Stewart D Nozette, a NASA scientist and Maryland resident, was taken into custody by FBI last week on charges of espionage for Israel.
He had served 16 years in sensitive positions in various wings of the federal government, including the White House, NASA and Energy Department and assisted in the development of the Clementine bi-static radar experiment which purportedly discovered water ice on the south pole of the Moon.
–PTI