![]() ![]() ![]() He is shocked when a flying saucer lands practically on top of him. As he idly broadcasts on his shortwave radio, someone identifying herself as "Peewee" answers and requests a homing signal. Kip reluctantly decides to return his space suit for a cash prize to help pay for college, but puts it on for one last walk. Kip puts the suit (which he names "Oscar") back into working condition. ![]() His father suggests he enter an advertising jingle-writing contest first prize is an all-expenses-paid trip there. High school senior Clifford "Kip" Russell is determined to get to the Moon, but the price of a ticket is far beyond his reach. ![]() In the near future, Earth has established some lunar bases. Heinlein's engineering expertise enabled him to add realistic detail during World War II, he had been a civilian aeronautics engineer at a laboratory which developed pressure suits for use at high altitudes. The last Heinlein novel to be published by Scribner's, it was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1959 and won the Sequoyah Children's Book Award for 1961. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (August, September, and October 1958) and published by Scribner's in hardcover in 1958. Have Space Suit-Will Travel is a science fiction novel for young readers by American writer Robert A. ![]()
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