Timeline for YA Australian based flight to moon from area near meteor craters
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| Jan 21, 2018 at 15:26 | comment | added | Mike Stone | Thanks. One more detail. The organisation behind the mission was called BEAMS (British Empire-American Moon Society) which led one of the boys to make a crack about "moonbeams". | |
| Jan 21, 2018 at 2:17 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | Mike Stone - I have decided to accept your answer. | |
| Jan 21, 2018 at 2:17 | vote | accept | M. A. Golding | ||
| Jan 10, 2018 at 13:41 | comment | added | Mike Stone | The two boys (named Sam and Noel iirc) were radio hams and first got in touch by radio across the Pacific (one was Australian, one American). When discovered on the ship, they talked their elders out of aborting the mission due to their need for a radio operator. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 10:43 | comment | added | Mike Stone | And I have a feeling that the launch site was located in or beside a meteor crater. Regrettably I no longer have a copy so can't swear to it. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 10:35 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | From my research Moon Ahead (1951) looks like a good candidate. There can't be too many novels where teenagers blast off from Australia on the first moon flight, and it does seem much closer than Blast off at Woomera. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 9:05 | history | answered | Mike Stone | CC BY-SA 3.0 |