Fly me to the moon, let me play...
Life must be lonely at NASA. Travis Johnson, a 23-year old researcher at NASA, was busted for soliciting sex from a cop posing as a 13-year old over the Internet. Police officers arrested him on NASA's property and seized computers and peripherals from his home. NASA officials are also going to probe their computers to see if they can find any evidence to help police with the investigation.
McGuire said that Johnson, a graduate of the University of Arizona, was
doing post-graduate research at NASA on the effects of zero gravity on
the muscles of astronauts. Johnson has a research grant through UH, and
used the UH Internet for his e-mail, McGuire said.
What's interesting to note (from anyone that has caught NBC's recent specials on Internet predators) is that Johnson used the most often quoted line from the "Child Predator's Handbook:"
He said this was the first time he had ever talked to somebody who was 13, and look where it got him.
I'm sure that Johnson will meet a few new unwanted "research partners" in jail.
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