“Engineers and certified pilots may be expensive but talented young men with a teenager's grasp of risk are surprisingly affordable.”

— James Nicoll

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Reviewing Robert Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo
2010s

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Canadian fiction reviewer 1961

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