The Hunger of Eve: One Woman's Odyssey Toward the Future

Marx Toys heiress Barbara Marx Hubbard tells us the true story of how she and Harry Winston, heir to a jewelry company, almost managed to buy an Apollo mission to the Moon. They planned to bring back Moon rocks and sell them as jewelry. Astronauts agreed to fly the mission and NASA had two Apollo rockets left over from when Nixon canceled the Apollo project. The U.S. Congress even passed a resolution demanding that NASA cooperate. You'll have to read this book to find out how NASA bureaucrats managed to torpedo this project because I hate to spoil a good and true story for you.The hunger of Eve