Chapters 33-40 Summary and Analysis

Chapter 33

While Gordon went out for pizza, Rebecca and Thad showered. They had an hour until the meeting. Thad had a great idea. He took the moon dust vial from the Apollo 11 flight and put it under the mattress. The chapter ends with the sentence: Exactly thirty years earlier, to the day, Neil Armstrong had taken the first step - but right then, right now - Thad Roberts was the first man to have sex on the moon.

Chapter 34

Thad was on the way to the meeting. He tried his best to keep Gordon and Rebecca away. He didn't want to see anything bad happen to Rebecca if they were caught, and Gordon was a loose cannon. They finally agreed to show up ten minutes after he did an pretend they didn't know him.

This wasn't the meeting where...