The Man Who Sold the Moon Moses must have looked, when he gazed out over the promised land." The Man Who Sold the Moon is also the title of two collections of Heinlein's short stories. Both collections include "Let There Be Light", "The Roads Must Roll", and "Requiem"; the first also includes "Life-Line" and "Blowups Happen". Although the science fiction film "Destination Moon" is generally described as being based on Heinlein's novel "Rocket Ship Galileo", the story in fact bears a much closer resemblance to "The Man Who Sold the Moon". However, the technology of "The Man Who Sold the Moon" is very different: its rocket
Lovell Telescope from these original objectives, and are outlined in the following sections. In Autumn 1958, the telescope was used to bounce "Hellos" off the Moon for a demonstration in Lovell's third Reith Lecture. The telescope was also used to receive messages bounced off the Moon (a "moonbounce") as part of the 50th anniversary First Move festival. In April 1961, a radar echo from Venus was achieved using the telescope while the planet was at a close approach, confirming measurements of the distance of the planet made by American telescopes. The 21 cm hydrogen line was discovered during the telescope's construction; the