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Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein

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Author Biography

Name: Robert A(nson) Heinlein
Variant Name: Robert A(nson) Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein, Anson MacDonald, Lyle Monroe, John Riverside, Caleb Saunders, Simon York, Robert (Anson) Heinlein
Birth Date: July 7, 1907
Death Date: May 8, 1988
Place of Birth: Butler, Missouri
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Robert A(nson) Heinlein
15701 words, approx. 52.3 pages
Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Butler, Missouri, a small town some sixty-five miles south of Kansas City. He and his six brothers and sisters were raised in Kansas City, where he attended grade school and high school, graudating from Central High in 1...


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Tunnel in the Sky Information
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Tunnel in the Sky is a science fiction book written by Robert A. Heinlein and published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles. The story describes a group of students sent on a survival test to an uninhabited planet. The themes of the...


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Pacific Builder and Engineer
Hard Rock Under Big Sky.(Tunnel Systems Inc)
04/04/2005: 1,062 words, approx. 4 pages
Staff Small Boring Unit Drills Intake Line For Golf Course Reservoir Tunnel Systems Inc., an experienced boring contracting company based in Woodinville, Wash., recently completed a 318-foot-long water-line bore for a Montana golf course using a Robbins Small Boring Unit. ...
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Air Transport World
Tunnels in the sky.(ATM(Asynchronous transfer mode))(Required Navigation Performance)
01/01/2006: 1,957 words, approx. 7 pages
AS AN APPROACH TOOL, Required Navigation Performance has the potential to offer significant benefits: Improved safety, more direct approaches, fewer diversions for weather, reduced fuel burn and, as a result, cost savings for airlines. There are environmental benefits too: Less wasted fuel means...
 


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Critical Essay by H. H. Holmes
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"In science-fiction circles," says Willy Ley on the jacket of Robert A. Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky … "it has become customary to use Robert A. Heinlein as the standard; unfortunately for most writers, that standard is too high." I agree wholeheartedly—with the addendum that the standard is sometimes a smidgin high for the Old Master himself. This story of high school students who are, for a senior seminar in Advanced Survival, translated to an unknown plane...


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