Now a mature geologist, Roberto Citrone is invited to join NASA at the Johnson Space Center south of Houston, Texas, to help set up the Apollo Returned Lunar Sample Program. He accepts, little knowing the heartache and moral dilemmas he will face. He is never certain that he made the right moral choices regarding his boss Stainless Steel and a Lunar sample curatorial facility that caused him to leave NASA. His heartache over the disappeared Post Doctoral Fellow-Lotus Blossom-lasts the rest of his life.