[PDF] Rocket Ship Galileo eBook

Author : Robert Anson Heinlein
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2004-12
Category : High school students
ISBN : 9780441012374

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From the four-time winner of the Hugo Award and the recipient of the Grand Master Nebula Award for Lifetime Achievement comes this classic story--first published in 1947--about pioneers at the dawn of space exploration.

Author : Robert Anson Heinlein
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Interplanetary voyages
ISBN : 9780786248582

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Three teenagers and an older scientist develop their own atomic rocket, solve their own space problems and blast off for the moon in spite of mysterious setbacks.

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429912537

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This is the seminal novel of a young man's education as a member of an elite, paternalistic non-military organization of leaders dedicated to preserving human civilization, the Solar Patrol, a provocative parallel to Heinlein's famous later novel, Starship Troopers (which is about the military). Only the best and brightest--the strongest and the most courageous--ever manage to become Space Cadets, at the Space Academy. They are in training to be come part of the elite guard of the solar system, accepting missions others fear, taking risks no others dare, and upholding the peace of the solar system for the benefit of all. But before Matt Dodson can earn his rightful place in the ranks, his mettle is to be tested in the most severe and extraordinary ways--ways that change him forever, from the midwestern American boy into a man of the Solar Patrol. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Robert Anson Heinlein
Publisher :
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : 9780739453452

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Three young men do what we all wanted to - they build Rocket Ship Galileo and fly it to the moon. Of course it's not so simple: there are rivals and red tape to overcome, and a totally unexpected and possibly lethal -- surprise waiting for them when they get there. Matt Dodson has heroic dreams of joining Space Patrol, so he becomes a Space Cadet and embarks on the long and difficult training that will show if he can do the job. His mettle is tested to the utmost when, on his first training flight he finds himself in the midst of an interplanetary crisis. Jim Marlowe grew up on the Red Planet, and when he's sent off to boarding school at Syrtis Major, he insists on taking his Martian pet with him. He doesn't anticipate how much trouble friendly little Willis will get him into -- and how paradoxically lucky that will turn out to be. Bill Lerner can't wait to leave an overcrowded Earth and become a Farmer in the Sky on Ganymede. He thinks he's ready for hard work and hardship -- but he has no idea what it will mean when things go wrong and the nearest help is four hundred million miles away!

Author : John Varley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 2004-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101656050

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Seven suburban misfits are constructing a spaceship out of old tanker cars. The plan is to beat the Chinese to Mars--in under four days at three million miles an hour. It would be history in the making if it didn't sound so insane.

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429983450

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A never-before-published masterpiece from science fiction's greatest writer, rediscovered after more than half a century. When Joel Johnston first met Jinny Hamilton, it seemed like a dream come true. And when she finally agreed to marry him, he felt like the luckiest man in the universe. There was just one small problem. He was broke. His only goal in life was to become a composer, and he knew it would take years before he was earning enough to support a family. But Jinny wasn't willing to wait. And when Joel asked her what they were going to do for money, she gave him a most unexpected answer. She told him that her name wasn't really Jinny Hamilton---it was Jinny Conrad, and she was the granddaughter of Richard Conrad, the wealthiest man in the solar system. And now that she was sure that Joel loved her for herself, not for her wealth, she revealed her family's plans for him---he would be groomed for a place in the vast Conrad empire and sire a dynasty to carry on the family business. Most men would have jumped at the opportunity. But Joel Johnston wasn't most men. To Jinny's surprise, and even his own, he turned down her generous offer and then set off on the mother of all benders. And woke up on a colony ship heading out into space, torn between regret over his rash decision and his determination to forget Jinny and make a life for himself among the stars. He was on his way to succeeding when his plans--and the plans of billions of others--were shattered by a cosmic cataclysm so devastating it would take all of humanity's strength and ingenuity just to survive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Neil Barron
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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This classic work is an essential tool for collection development, research, reference, and readers' advisory work."--BOOK JACKET.