Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History

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Ben Mezrich Doubleday 320 pp. $26.95 (2011) In 2002, NASA fellow Thad Roberts, aided by three interns, stole lunar and martian samples from a Johnson Space Center vault in Houston, Texas. As writer Ben Mezrich deftly recounts, Roberts's motivation was not geological obsession, but a desire to impress one of his accomplices, Tiffany Fowler. In a bizarre act that was both poetic and literal-minded, Roberts made love to her on a bed strewn with Moon rocks - hence the book's title. Rarely has career suicide been so entertaining.