Stewart D. Nozette, 52, a former NASA scientist who designed instruments for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and India’s Chandrayaan-1 Moon probe, was arrested Oct. 19 at his home in Chevy Chase, Md., on a charge that he sold classified information about U.S. satellites, early warning systems and other national defense capabilities to an undercover FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer. A federal judge ordered Nozette to remain in jail until an Oct. 29 detention hearing.
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