Destination Moon

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1. AnimatsMay 2026
   That one, about a member of Congress, has a sex scene in a hot tub. It had 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".

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2. shakowJun 2023
   > 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 :]

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3. billswiftNov 2010
   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.
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