Gibbs rule no. 38: your case, your lead.
Joe Gutheinz, a retired Senior Special Agent with NASA Office of Inspector General - and foremost authority on missing moon rocks, provided the writers with technical support during the creation of this episode.
At the beginning of the episode, the cemetery administrator asks Ducky for the case number as he has not received a "27b/6 form". This is a reference to the movie Brazil (1985). It is also the apartment in which George Orwell wrote 1984 (1984).
Michael Des Barres (Del Finney) actually performed at Live Aid as the new singer for Power Station, replacing Robert Palmer.