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{{quote| '''Roger''': For starters, spaceships do ''not'' make 180 degree turns!<br />
'''Hazel''': Mine do. }}
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: Early in their trip to Mars, Buster, the youngest of the Stones, suffers from severe space sickness. Roger makes plans to swing their ship back towards Luna, despite being turned down by traffic control and knowing he'd at minimum be heavily fined, and have his ship master's license revoked.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: In the book ''[[Literature/Expanded Universe|Expanded Universe]]'', Mr Heinlein explain how Mrs Heinlein and he spent many hours calculating the precise orbit of the spaceship when it departs Luna and slingshots around Earth toward Mars. They had to do it with paper and pen, because in the early 1950s there was no other way and he wanted it to be correct.
* [[Take That]]: You have to wonder if some of Roger Stone's rantings about his much hated science-fiction show contract had anything to do with Heinlein's experiences working on [[Destination Moon]], or [[Tom Corbet Space Cadet]].
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