Unless there ’s something that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong did n’t tell us about , there are very few people that can claim they have had sex on the Moon . In fact , there are , so far , only two .
In 2000 , a high - achieving student from the University of Utah lived out many a scientist ’s aspiration and joined NASA ’s internship program . Thad Roberts , atriple - majorin physics , geology , and geophysics had even bigger dreams than most , wanting not only to be an astronaut but the first someone on Mars . Unless there ’s a sudden and unexpected twist of consequence , this will not pass , though you could argue that he ’s done the next " best " matter when he had sex upon space rocks .
During his internship at NASA , Roberts before long got over his initial nerves at being at the big space agency in the world and began getting into shenanigans , includingsneaking onto a place shuttlecock simulator . alas , the loopy prank phase angle soon turned into a committing federal crime phase , when Roberts spy Moon rocks in a laboratory and set himself a new end of steal the rocks and betray them for money .
You would care to think that a rip-off of NASA would necessitate at least three costume changes , two collage where the principal heister explains the holdup , and one twist where unbeknownst to the other heisters it turns out he ’d heist them too in the process . We would love to tell you that was the grammatical case , but in world , he and two interns he rope in – Tiffany Fowler and Shae Saur – merely walked into the laboratory using their NASA ID one dark . When they actualise they could not open up the safe , they merely put it on a dolly and walked out of the building , without even pausing to do a patent George Clooney double switcharoo .
Once they were out , the squad managed to give up the Rock from their safe , and began to calculate at selling them . In the meanwhile , Thad decided to become the first individual in story to do a sexual practice on them .
" I take some of the moonlight rocks , and I put ‘em underneath the blanket in the bottom , " Robertstold CBS News in an consultation , before being asked if he had had sex on the Moon rock ( and one sample of a Martian meteor ) .
" Yeah . I never said anything , but I ’m sure she could feel it . She never suppose anything straight off , either , but it was more about the symbolisation of what we were doing – you know , basically having sex on the lunation . "
As you could imagine , it was n’t the most comfortable of lovemaking sessions , which is one of the many reasons it ’s rarefied for people to incorporate geology into foreplay .
" Yeah , it ’s more uncomfortable than not , " Roberts told CBS . " But it was n’t about the comfort at that point . It was about the formula . And no one had ever had sex on the moon before . "
Roberts ' tarradiddle was turned into a evenhandedly sympathetic book in 2011 by source Ben Mezrich , titledSex on the Moon .
" He really was n’t a criminal,“Mezrich said in 2012 . " He did n’t cogitate through the after - effects . I asked him gobs of time over the year , ' How did you think you were going to get by with this ? ' And he said it just was n’t part of the intellection unconscious process . … He only thought of it as a college prank ; he thought , ' Even if I do get caught , what ’s the worst they ’ll do to me ? "
The bad , it turned out , was an eight - year judgment of conviction to federal prison house . Roberts , it will appal you to teach , was not one of the all - fourth dimension great cat burglars . His programme to sell off the rocks was to list them on the website of theMineralogy Club of Antwerpin Belgium . Moon rocks are rare and fabulously expensive , and soon one aggregator rise suspicious that the sale might not be legit and alerted the FBI , who decided to set up a sting operation .
At this point , we ’d love to tell you that the FBI set up an elaborate operation affect at least as many montages and forked - crosses as above , but alas , they just email tell they ’d be up for buying a bit of moon . Roberts – under the pretense of “ Orb Robinson ” , which is about as proficient as " Ian Fakename " in terms of aliases – was told to “ contact my sidekick and sister - in - law of nature in Pennsylvania to set up a meeting . ”
When Roberts met the prospective buyers in an Italian restaurant , he discovered that the " brother and baby - in - law " were actually federal official . The synodic month rocks were recovered – and as an add incentive , several steal dinosaur dodo were recovered from his house . It is unknown whether he swot upon the dino bones .
As amusing as several of the details of the case were , there is an improbably serious side to it all . Not only had he stolen the moon samples , but he had also done irreparable damage to them .
" The young thieves did more than just essay to sell off a collection of lunar sample worth as much as $ 21 million , " the FBI pen . " In the process , they also contaminated them – making them near useless to the scientific community . "
Worse still , in their endeavor to slip , have gender on , and then sell the contaminated rocks , they destroyed three ten of handwritten notes by NASA scientist that had been locked in the dependable – making them perhaps the bad interns the space delegacy has ever had .
