Sex on the Moon

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 27, 2011

Ben Mezrich, author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, tells the story of Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program who had a romantic, crazy idea to give his girlfriend the moon—literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and an accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into a NASA lab to help him steal one of the most precious objects in the world: the moon rocks. Sex on the Moon is Mezrich’s account of this madcap heist.

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