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Available
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PB Hei
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Ace (2004), Edition: 58995th, 211 pages
Description
Fiction. Science Fiction & Fantasy. HTML: From the grand master of science fiction comes this classic story about pioneers at the dawn of space exploration. Ross Jenkins, Art Mueller, and Morris Abrams are not your average high schools students. While other kids are cruising around in their cars or playing ball, this trio, known as the Galileo Club, is experimenting with rocket fuels, preparing for their future education at technical colleges. Art's uncle, the nuclear physicist Dr. Donald Cargraves, offers them the opportunity of a lifetime: to construct and crew a rocket that will take them to the moon. Cargraves believes their combined ingenuity and enthusiasm can actually make this dream come true�??but there are those who don't share their dream and who will stop at nothing to keep their rocket grounded.… (more)
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1947
Physical description
224 p.; 5.26 inches
Media reviews
NBD / Biblion
Een van Heinleins zwakste jeugd-SF romans die sterk de na-oorlogse atmosfeer uitademt waarin bij geschreven werd. Een atoomgeleerde, kandidaat Nobelprijs, bouwt samen met drie teenagers een ruimteschip en vliegt ermee naar de maan. Daar ontdekken ze een basis van boosaardige Nazis die een
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atoomoorlog met de VSA willen starten en daarna het Duitse Rijk heropbouwen. Na wat heen en weer geknok gaan de slechte Duitsers eraan of geven zich over. De reine Amerikaanse Jonge Helden keren glorierijk terug naar de VSA na de wereldbeschaving gered te hebben. Primitief (goedAmerikaans tegen slechtDuits), verouderd (uit 1947, en toen waren er al tientallen boeken over hetzelfde thema), vervelend (1/2-boekvoorbereiding tot de start) Zie ook a.i. 78-12-534.
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User reviews
LibraryThing member devondoyle
Robert Heinlein is a Sci-Fi God.
Rocket Ship Galileo, published in 1947, exactly 22 years before man landed on the moon, accurately predicted the Great Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union, and the conditions future astronauts would face while stepping over the moon's surface.
Taking place right after WWII, the story focuses around four main characters: three young gents who happen to enjoy experimenting with rockets; and a Dr. Cargraves, who is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who is related to one of the boys. The doctor hires on the three young boys to help him build and pilot a rocket ship on a trip to the moon. Bombs, Quonset huts, Nazis, guns, clever banter and an Indiana Jones like spirit fill the 187 page novel with personified love.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys Sci-Fi or adventure novels. It’s a quick, easy, and enjoyable read. If you don’t like pages and pages of technological theory this book may not be for you, but that aside it’s pretty perfect.
Rocket Ship Galileo, published in 1947, exactly 22 years before man landed on the moon, accurately predicted the Great Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union, and the conditions future astronauts would face while stepping over the moon's surface.
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Although way off base on a lot of technology (computers, the speed of space travel, etc.) overall he generally hits the nail on the head. This is also Heinlein’s first book, and from what other novels I have read of his this is one of his best. Reading it makes little bubbles of joy fill my head. Taking place right after WWII, the story focuses around four main characters: three young gents who happen to enjoy experimenting with rockets; and a Dr. Cargraves, who is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who is related to one of the boys. The doctor hires on the three young boys to help him build and pilot a rocket ship on a trip to the moon. Bombs, Quonset huts, Nazis, guns, clever banter and an Indiana Jones like spirit fill the 187 page novel with personified love.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys Sci-Fi or adventure novels. It’s a quick, easy, and enjoyable read. If you don’t like pages and pages of technological theory this book may not be for you, but that aside it’s pretty perfect.
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LibraryThing member LisaMaria_C
Of all of Heinlein's novels, this one is probably the most dated in feel. Yes, others of his novels have that charming combination of ray guns and slide rules, but while others shoot for the planets or the stars, Rocket Ship Galileo, published in 1947 is about the first voyage to the moon--made by
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teenagers. Where they find Nazis! Yes, really. And yet.. I have to admit, you'll have to pry my copy out of my cold, dead hands. It's fun to read what Heinlein got right over twenty years before the first moon landing, and what hilariously wrong And if nothing else, Heinlein is always readable, pulling you in and through. Show Less
LibraryThing member mikeandmelinda
Three teenage friends are recruited by a world-class scientist to help him build and fly a rocketship that will reach the moon. They don't know what to expect what they get there, but what they find couldn't surprise them more.
LibraryThing member Andybaby
Great Read Like the Rest of Heinleins Juveniles, I would love if he went further with this story. Has a Twist i did not expect at the end, mainly because i forgot when it was written. I love Heinleins Futures
LibraryThing member Karlstar
A very old fashioned and romantic view of early space travel. Heinlein clearly relied on the ability of people to build their own airplanes, which continues today. However, at the time the math hadn't been done to show how difficult it was to get into orbit - unless you rely on atomic energy. It
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was interesting to read, sort of a time capsule back to the 1940's, not a vision of the future. Show Less
LibraryThing member fulner
One of the better books I have read of late. This, for the midday part fires into the category my friend An would call high science fiction. It is written in 1947 and takes place in 1949. Its about a you of recent high shook graduated that have been building midweek tickets for some time. Just s
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they are about to split ways and go off to college one of their unless offers then the chance of a love time to be the first men on the moon. Because "obviously" no government nor government protected vituperation would take on such an asteroid risk, they need to self find it, and not pushing 18 year olds I'd pay off the solution to make it affordable. It seems like someone or something. Is trying to stop then all along the way, incident a 1940s version of cold perturbed archives, but they find their way around but Henry and their goons.. Many scientific ideas are explorred, many did with what our host books show happened in the 60s though Jarlin was wrong on a few. The story kind of his to pieces when they rib into someone wise on the moon, and out is subside you'd never expect. Either way I highly recommend, and the audio book performance is also fabrfantastic, and I look forward not only to reading other works of Harlin but the writings of Spyder tve official who happened to read the audio Vedic appears to be a sifi writer in his own right Show Less
LibraryThing member iBeth
This book has all the charms of early SF. Dialogue like, "Gee, am I glad to see you! This place was giving me the jim-jams!" Characters who build a rocket ship to the moon, atomic powered, out in the desert, while using slide rules and corded phones. They go to the moon and meet an unexpected
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welcoming committee . . . of sorts. Show Less
LibraryThing member fuzzi
I've been valiantly attempting to finish this book, but at the halfway point I've given up, and admitting that I'm not interested in what happens. The story is not engaging at all, and the writing isn't up to par with this author's other works, including his other early "juvenile" books I've read.
LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey
Not one of my favorite Heinlein juveniles, but not bad. I enjoy the nuts-and-bolts bits of building the rocket and figuring things out (and the rocket club, at the beginning); the intrigue aspects are...highly unlikely, and detract from the main story. The timing is too close (three months?) and
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how did they hear about the plan anyway? It looks like someone told him to punch it up, just going to the moon wasn't enough - and whoever it was (possibly Heinlein told himself...) was just plain wrong. It also leaves the questions of what they find on the Moon completely out of the picture. OK story, could have been much better. There were some amusing bits where things that were considerations during the actual moon landings (flags stiffened with wire to "fly", for instance) came up in the story. Note that this was written more than twenty years before the actual moon landings...not bad. Show Less
LibraryThing member dmmjlllt
Solid beginning to this "series" of books. Moves right along, with plenty of incident. There's only one semi-defined character (Cargraves), the others are all ciphers, but the book is over so quickly it doesn't really matter. Possibly a little too much popular mechanics for some tastes, and there
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are a few sermons that are tiresome (although the off-handed way in which Heinlein's spokesman asserts that "mathematics has no content" as if this was a simple observation of fact, is kind of unintentionally hilarious). Show Less
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