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Book 2011

Sex on the Moon

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Publisher
Doubleday
Published
2011
  • Interns
  • Officials and employees
  • United States
  • Thieves
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
  • Biography
  • Theft
  • Scientists

Sex on the Moon is the true story of Thad Roberts, a young Mormon geologist with an internship (a "co-op") at the Johnson Space Center, living his dream of doing work for NASA. He decides to steal several million dollars' worth of moon rocks; the title of the book describes one of his criminal motivations: his passion for his girlfriend. The actions of a rock hound from Antwerp who alerts the FBI to the crime are also followed.