num_pages: 320
description: Thad Roberts a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an ideaa romantic albeit crazy idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice both NASA interns to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASApast security checkpoints an electronically locked door with cipher security codes and camera-lined hallwaysand help him steal the most precious objects in the the moon rocks. But what does one do with an item so valuable that its illegal even to own? And was Thad Robertsundeniably gifted picked for one of the most competitive scientific posts imaginable a possible astronautreally what he seemed? Mezrich has pored over thousands of pages of court records FBI transcripts and NASA documents and has interviewed most of the participants in the crime to reconstruct this Oceans Eleven style heist a madcap story of genius love and duplicity that reads like a Hollywood thrill ride.
language: English
title: Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
publisher: Doubleday