Upon completion of the modifications, they stock the rocket, which they name the Galileo, and take off for the Moon, taking approximately three days to arrive. They use a cleared area in a military weapons test range in the desert for their work, despite prying and sabotage attempts by unknown agents. It is to be converted to run on a thorium nuclear pile which boils zinc as a propellant. Cargraves, a renowned physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, to refit a conventionally powered surplus " mail rocket". Plot summary Īfter World War II, three teenage rocket experimenters are recruited by one boy's uncle, Dr. Publishers initially rejected the script, judging going to the moon as "too far out". Heinlein originally envisioned the novel as the first of a series of books called "Young Rocket Engineers". It was the first in the Heinlein juveniles, a long and successful series of science-fiction novels published by Scribner's. Heinlein, published in 1947, features three teenagers who participate in a pioneering flight to the Moon. Rocket Ship Galileo, a juvenile science-fiction novel by the American writer Robert A.
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