Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

Three high school students formed the Galileo Club to share their interests in science and space exploration. But they never imagined they would team up with a nuclear physicist to construct and crew a rocket bound for the moon.

And they never expected to gain some powerful enemies in the process.

Is this part of Heinlein's Space Cadet books, Book Nerd?

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Yes, Space Cadet is the second book in the Heinlein's Juveniles series.

I finished it last night. It was a good little adventure book with plenty of twists and turns. As with most books of that time they didn't spend a lot of time working on things, just threw together a rocket and went. But the books were written for young boys so Heinlein did throw in some details about science and engineering.

I read this online for free today. It's like Hardy Boys with rocketships. A fun read.

Lol yeah, definitely Hardy Boys with rockets.

There are Heinlein books that I love and have read many, many times, but Rocket Ship Galileo isn't one of them, lol.

I'd forgotten much about it, other than it felt like a Garland/Hardy plot 'Let's put on a show!' replaced with 'Let's go to the moon!' And thank goodness Heinlein got better with women - for this one, we're stuck with a few mothers and an offstage, suspect blonde, letter writing girlfriend.

I'm looking forward to revisiting some of the others quite a bit more than this one.

He writes women okay overall for the time, but this is a boy's adventure series from the forties so I don't know if there will be many women.