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Destination Moon

Robert A. Heinlein

First published 1951
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette


Based loosely on Heinlein's novel Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), this is the story of the 1950 feature film Destination Moon, whose writers were Heinlein, Alford "Rip" Van Ronkel ({{a|Rip Von Ronkel}}), and {{a|James O'Hanlon}}. --from the SFE3 entry on the film (SF-Encyclopedia.com above)

Wikipedia covers the film and short story in two articles.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1951 Cover Los Cuentos Fantásticos, No. 30 Enigma (México) MAGAZINE 4
1958 Cover Three Times Infinity Red Seal Book Anthology 111
1958 Cover Three Times Infinity Gold Medal Books Anthology 122
January 1958 Cover Three Times Infinity Gold Medal Books Anthology 121
July 1963 Cover Three Times Infinity Gold Medal Books Anthology 122
1964 Cover La puerta del tiempo Vértice Collection 111
1966 Cover Three Times Infinity Fawcett Gold Medal Anthology 121
September 1979 Cover Destination Moon Gregg Press Collection [15]
February 1992 Cover Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master Tor Collection 64
June 1993 Cover Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master Tor Collection 64
August 1994 Cover Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master Tor Collection 95
1995 Cover Space Movies: Classic Science Fiction Films Severn House Anthology 5
1998 Cover Classic Science Fiction Pan Books Anthology 5
August 1999 Cover Vintage Science Fiction Carroll & Graf Anthology 5
October 2005 Cover Off the Main Sequence: The Other Science Fiction Stories of Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Book Club Collection 565
July 2009 Cover Com a cabeça na Lua Edições Saída de Emergência Anthology |5
February 2012 Cover Requiem The Virginia Edition Collection 67
November 2013 Cover Destination Moon Spectrum Literary Agency Collection