Title: Sex on the Moon
Description: **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.
Subjects: New York Times bestseller, nyt:e-book_nonfiction=2011-07-09, Interns, Officials and employees, United States, Thieves, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Biography, Theft, Scientists, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Case studies, Lunar petrology, History, United states, national aeronautics and space administration, Scientists, biography, Lunar geology
Places: Houston, Antwerp
People: Thad Roberts, Dr. Everett K. Gibson Jr.
Time periods: 2000-2008