He is probably the only Missourian with both a crater on Mars and an asteroid named after him. He was not an astronomer, nor an astronaut. But he was known as the “Dean of Science Fiction Writers.”
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Robert Heinlein as a baby, top left in baby carriage, at Butler. Heinlein with his parents at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., circa 1929. Robert in his Navy uniform, bottom left. Three future sci-fi greats work together at the Philadelphia Naval Ship yard in 1944: Robert Heinlein, L. Sprague de Camp and Isaac Asimov.(Note - I can't access the complete article because a digital subscription is needed...still you get the idea!)
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