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Robert Heinlein wrote "Rocket Ship Galileo" in 1947 but it remains a good fast read to this day. I liked the period slang the characters throw around to each other. Also in tune with the period are the antagonists, Nazi survivors who establish an atom bomb base on the moon! Wow!
Three young fellas just out of high school spend their summer vacation re-building a transport rocket into a moon ship along with a brilliant scientist. Heinlein uses the teacher-pupil relationship to present nuggets of scientific knowledge to the reader.
"Rocket Ship Galileo" stands at the head of a line of twelve books referred to as "Heinlein Juveniles" in the Heinlein archives. He wrote twelve what we would call "Young Adult" books today, each an independent work not associated with any other. In all of them he has young people standing up and growing up as strong independent young humans. The series ends with "Have Spacesuit-Will Travel" in 1958. Some folks will include "Star Ship Troopers" and "Podkayne of Mars" but they were by different publishers.
As a first try the book has some flaws. The story line is laughable and the characters seem tissue thin to those familiar with Heinlein's later work. But the underlying theme of self reliance, initiative and the daring needed to accomplish great things are all there to be absorbed along the the story itself. The government is mentioned only as an impediment to the progress of the boys, a reflection of Heinlein's Libertarian streak. For that reason and the skill with which these themes are inserted into the story we give the high number of stars.
Anyone of the proper age will benefit from this story. Dads' and Grand Dad's might gift their young decedents with this book.


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Rocket Ship Galileo Robert A Heinlein 9780441012374 Books Reviews

This was Heinlein's first novel published in book form, and the first in his excellent "juvenile" series which included Space Cadet, Time For The Stars, Starman Jones, The Star Beast, Tunnel In The Sky, etc., and it is still my all-time favorite. Heinlein manages to make believable the tale of a scientist (Dr. Cargraves) organizing three 18-year-old boys of a rocket club to build a nuclear powered moon rocket. If you have an interest in space travel you'll get sucked in and won't put the book down until it's over, no matter how dated and unlikely the premise at first appears. It is written with Heinlein's usual skill (that earned him four Hugo awards), and the characters are easy to identify with, especially for any young space enthusiasts. This was also the basis for the 1950 classic film Destination Moon, although about all that remains unchanged in the film is the name Dr. Cargraves. In the book there is a veiled threat from unknown enemies that turn out to be Nazis (this was the first thing Heinlein wrote after the war) - in the film there's just a veiled reference to a communist threat. I suspect the film also draws from Heinlein's more sophisticated treatment from the same period, The Man Who Sold The Moon.
On 6 October 1988, after Robert Heinlein's death, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded him the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal
"In recognition of his meritorious service to the Nation and mankind in advocating and promoting the exploration of space. Through dozens of superbly written novels and essays and his epoch-making movie Destination Moon, he helped inspire the Nation to take its first step into space and onto the Moon." -- James C. Fletcher, Administrator, NASA
No true Heinlein fan should be without an original Scribner's hardcover edition of Rocket Ship Galileo, with the same cover and illustrations as the first edition.
There is a reason Heinlein is such a icon of SciFi. This is a good example of that reason. I really do not wish to give away any of the story other than it revolves around 3 boys and an Uncle going to the moon. The boys start with a ground test of a rocket and from there things continue to build to a fantastic ending that no one could see coming.
Four star story equals a four star audiobook.

I enjoyed this story more than “Methuselah’s Children” and “The Martian Chronicles” on audiobook. It’s about as good as “The Door Into Summer.”

For better sci-fi stories I recommend these five star audiobooks, “Have Space Suit Will Travel” and “Farmer In The Sky” (Heinlein at his best), and “Tom Corbett Space Cadet A Radio Dramatization,” which is a fun short story. They all have that great sense of awe, adventure, and excitement about space that existed back in the fifties and sixties.

And if you haven’t read “Starship Troopers” by Robert A. Heinlein I recommend it. It’s not like the movie. It’s the story that motivated me to read everything I could get my hands on by Heinlein when I was in Junior High School. About Heinlein, I love the stories he wrote in the fifties and sixties, but after that his stories didn’t entertain me.
A lesson that is well taught by this book. It is also has been shown to be fairly prophetic. I read this story well prior to Apollo 11 and since I just re-read it recently, I was amazed by the number of details that were similar between the _Galileo_ and the _Eagle_ both of them had computer trouble as the landing approach became critical. Both pilots had to take over from the computer and land the ship manual. Even the maneuvering jets used the same fuel and operated the same way. No, thorium has never been used as an energy source in rocketry (its not even possible) and zinc has never been used as a reaction mass, but I think that these mistakes were deliberate on Heinlein's part. He wanted his readers to act on their dreams and he did everything he could to encourage them to do so. He was a big believer in accurate and effective education backed up by action on the part of students. That is clear in every sentence of this novel.

Much of _Rocket Ship Galileo_ is dated, but it remains a great read for any who aspire to achieve great things.
Robert Heinlein wrote "Rocket Ship Galileo" in 1947 but it remains a good fast read to this day. I liked the period slang the characters throw around to each other. Also in tune with the period are the antagonists, Nazi survivors who establish an atom bomb base on the moon! Wow!
Three young fellas just out of high school spend their summer vacation re-building a transport rocket into a moon ship along with a brilliant scientist. Heinlein uses the teacher-pupil relationship to present nuggets of scientific knowledge to the reader.
"Rocket Ship Galileo" stands at the head of a line of twelve books referred to as "Heinlein Juveniles" in the Heinlein archives. He wrote twelve what we would call "Young Adult" books today, each an independent work not associated with any other. In all of them he has young people standing up and growing up as strong independent young humans. The series ends with "Have Spacesuit-Will Travel" in 1958. Some folks will include "Star Ship Troopers" and "Podkayne of Mars" but they were by different publishers.
As a first try the book has some flaws. The story line is laughable and the characters seem tissue thin to those familiar with Heinlein's later work. But the underlying theme of self reliance, initiative and the daring needed to accomplish great things are all there to be absorbed along the the story itself. The government is mentioned only as an impediment to the progress of the boys, a reflection of Heinlein's Libertarian streak. For that reason and the skill with which these themes are inserted into the story we give the high number of stars.
Anyone of the proper age will benefit from this story. Dads' and Grand Dad's might gift their young decedents with this book.