Destination MoonRobert A. Heinlein
Destination Moon
by Robert A. Heinlein · first published 1979
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…movie potential. The Roy Krock movie worked because audiences understand McDonalds. Trying to explain the relationship between R&D policy and defense spending is much tougher. Although see Heinlein's "Destination Moon".
on “America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen” ↗That's nothing new. Read what Heinlein has to say about the making of Destination Moon in 1949 in his Guest of Honor Speech at the Rio de Janeiro Movie Festival twenty years later. It was published in the posthumous tribute collection, Requiem.
on “Just fucking figure it out” ↗> So much text, more like an illustrated book :) Speaking of walls of text, remember the explanation of the inner workings of an atomic reactor in Destination Moon? That's how 5 y.o. me discovered nuclear physics :]
on “Tintin, Hergé and Chang – A Friendship That Changed the World” ↗