Rocket Ship Galileo

by Robert A. Heinlein · first published 1947

Rocket Ship Galileo, a juvenile science-fiction novel by the American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1947, features three teenagers who participate in a pioneering flight to the Moon. It was the first in the Heinlein juveniles, a long and successful series of science-fiction novels published by Scribner's. Heinlein originally envisioned the novel as the first of a series of books called "Young Rocket Engineers". Publishers initially rejected the script, judging going to the Moon as "too far out".

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Genre:

Science Fiction

Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 3.9 / 5 (7 on Open Library)

Year page:

1947