“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
Robert A. Heinlein 1907-1988
Inspire Note: "Heinlein was influential in making space exploration seem to the public more like a practical possibility. His stories in publications such as The Saturday Evening Post took a matter-of-fact approach to their outer-space setting, rather than the "gee whiz" tone that had previously been common. The documentary-like film Destination Moon advocated a Space Race with the Soviet Union almost a decade before such an idea became commonplace, and was promoted by an unprecedented publicity campaign in print publications. Many of the astronauts and others working in the U. S. space program grew up on a diet of the Heinlein juveniles, best evidenced by the naming of a crater on Mars after him, and a tribute interspersed by the Apollo 15 astronauts into their radio conversations while on the moon."
Source: The Hammer and the Feather (Apollo 15 Lunar Surface Journal)
Robert A.Heinlein's online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online; including the article, "The Last Days of the United States".
The image is of the crater on Mars named for Heinlein, and is in the public domain at Wikimedia Commons.
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