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Heinlein Publishing History is Made!
Heinlein publishing history was made on March 26, 2013 when the Kickstarter project to fund a graphic novel version of Robert A. Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy achieved its funding goal! With several days yet before the funding date of … Read More
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Heinlein Pay-It-Forward Scholarship Fund
In 2006 The Heinlein Prize Trust started a modest, experimental scholarship/loan program with the International Space University in Strasbourg, France. The International Space University is an institution of higher learning offering Masters degrees in Space Studies, Space Management, and Business … Read More
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Have Space Suit — Will Travel to Strasbourg, France
International Space University Professor, Dr. Chris Welch held a session with one hundred 11th grade students at the English section of the International High‐School of Pontonniers in Strasbourg (France) on November 22, 2012. Accompanying Dr. Welch was the Have Space … Read More
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World Space Week
The Heinlein Prize Trust joins in World Space Week at the International Astronautical Congress in Naples, Italy. If you are attending IAC, visit the Heinlein Prize Trust stand to get World Space Week information, posters, and teacher guides. Every year … Read More
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Have Space Suit – Will Travel to London
The Royal Aeronautical Society in London hosted the Have Space Suit – Will Travel educational program on June 18, 2012. Art Dula of The Heinlein Prize Trust, flight surgeon Dr. Jon Clark, and private space participant Anousheh Ansari presented the … Read More
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Have Space Suit – Will Travel to Paideia School
It was a time magical for everyone. That was the review of astronaut Dr. Don Thomas’s visit to Paideia School in Atlanta in April 2012. Amy Baxter, M.D., the ‘adopted’ granddaughter of the Heinleins, and an enthusiastic supporter of their … Read More
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Have Space Suit — Will Travel 2011 Program
Besides being a lot of fun, the Have Space Suit — Will Travel experience exposes the students to new technologies that are used in both space suits and spacecrafts, and provides them with an opportunity to look into the future and envision the space travel that may be possible within their lifetimes. Read More
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Have Space Suit – Will Travel: Colorado
The Have Spacesuit — Will Travel educational program expanded further across the United States as the spacesuit, a genuine Sokol spacesuit which has spent more than 196 days in space and traveled some 85 million miles, visited the 4th grade … Read More
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Have Space Suit Adult Programs 2011
The Have Spacesuit — Will Travel educational program, which has been popular and successful with middle school and high school students, expanded to include engineering college students in Boulder, Colorado, and students at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, … Read More
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The Heinlein Guide in Malaysian
Working with World Space Week, The Heinlein Prize Trust has produced a translation of The Heinlein Guide in Malaysian. The Heinlein Guide is a collection of science and language arts activities for middle school teachers based on the book Have Spacesuit – Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein. Read More
Have Space Suit – And Spaceship
Some students got an experience beyond the spacesuit alone in the Have Spacesuit — Will Travel program. They got to explore an Excalibur Almaz spacecraft as well! These students were from a UTMB course, Intro to Aerospace Medicine. The day’s … Read More
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The Heinlein Prize Trust and Star City
The Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust has given a grant of $10,000 to “United by Space,” which runs “Star Relay” 2010-2011: a competition of scientific, technological, and artistic projects on space. This grant will pay for expert consultation, … Read More
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Have Spacesuit – Will Travel 2010 Program
The Have Spacesuit — Will Travel program in 2010 was a great success. Four public schools in Maryland participated, with a total of232 students involved. Together with the students from 2009, the total students who have participated in HSWT to date is 436. Read More
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Lesson Plan: Time For the Stars
Time for the Stars is the tenth of the juveniles Robert Heinlein wrote from the late forties through the early sixties. Time for the Stars was one of the works that incorporated twins, which Heinlein’s wife Ginny loved. A work that explains Einsteinian relativity as well as any work of fiction ever has, Time for the Stars also challenges conventional attitudes towards siblings. Read More
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Lesson Plan: Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers is the last of the juveniles Robert Heinlein published with the prestigious Scribner’s from the late forties through the late fifties. The book has never been out of print, and is regularly used as assigned reading in the military, to promote the qualities of leadership and sacrifice which are the essence of the mature adult serving our country. Read More
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Lesson Plan: The Star Beast
The Star Beast is the eighth of the juveniles Robert Heinlein wrote from the late forties through the early sixties. The Star Beast, like Tunnel in the Sky and Starship Troopers, contains extensive reference to government and politics, and serves notice that readers need to be aware of their government, their roles as citizens, and their rights and responsibilities. Read More
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Lesson Plan: Podkayne of Mars
Podkayne of Mars is the last of the juveniles Robert Heinlein wrote from the late forties through the early sixties. Podkayne is the only one of his juveniles to feature a girl, although not the first time he had written fiction for young girls. Read More
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Lesson Plan: Between Planets
Between Planets is the fifth of the juveniles Robert Heinlein wrote from the late forties through the early sixties. The series is widely regarded as the finest science fiction ever written for young people; many, including Grandmaster Jack Williamson, believe them to be the best science fiction Robert Heinlein ever wrote. Read More
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61st International Astronautical Congress
October 2010: Lesson plans for Have Spacesuit – Will Travel were distributed to Czech Republic teachers at the 61st International Astronautical Congress in Prague, Czech Republic Read More
Have Spacesuit – Will Travel, And It Did!
October 9, 2009: A genuine spacesuit, was shown to 210 students participating in the “Have Spacesuit, Will Travel” educational program sponsored by The Heinlein Prize Trust, World Space Week, and Astronaut Leroy Chiao, Ph.D. who accompanied the spacesuit to the classes. Read More

