Editing Robert A. Heinlein (section)

===Inspiring culture and technology===
In 1962, [[Oberon Zell-Ravenheart]] (then still using his birth name, Tim Zell) founded the [[Church of All Worlds]], a [[Neopagan]] religious organization modeled in many ways (including its name) after the treatment of religion in the novel ''Stranger in a Strange Land''. This spiritual path included several ideas from the book, including non-mainstream family structures, social libertarianism, water-sharing rituals, an acceptance of all religious paths by a single tradition, and the use of several terms such as "grok", "Thou art God", and "Never Thirst". Though Heinlein was neither a member nor a promoter of the Church, there was a frequent exchange of correspondence between Zell and Heinlein, and he was a paid subscriber to their magazine, ''[[Green Egg]]''. This Church still exists as a [[501(C)(3)]] religious organization incorporated in California, with membership worldwide, and it remains an active part of the neopagan community today.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://original.caw.org|title=Church Of All Worlds|website=Original.caw.org|access-date=November 26, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101101225339/http://original.caw.org/|archive-date=November 1, 2010}}</ref> Zell-Ravenheart's wife, [[Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart|Morning Glory]] coined the term [[polyamory]] in 1990,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2007/01/polyamory-enters-oxford-english.html|title=Polyamory in the News: "Polyamory" enters the Oxford English Dictionary, and tracking the word's origins|access-date=June 28, 2020|archive-date=June 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605003116/https://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2007/01/polyamory-enters-oxford-english.html|url-status=live}}</ref> another movement that includes Heinlein concepts among its roots.

Heinlein was influential in making [[space exploration]] seem to the public more like a practical possibility. His stories in publications such as ''The Saturday Evening Post'' took a matter-of-fact approach to their outer-space setting, rather than the "gee whiz" tone that had previously been common. The documentary-like film ''[[Destination Moon (film)|Destination Moon]]'' advocated a [[Space Race]] with an unspecified foreign power almost a decade before such an idea became commonplace, and was promoted by an unprecedented publicity campaign in print publications. Many of the astronauts and others working in the U.S. space program grew up on a diet of the Heinlein [[young adult literature|juveniles]],{{Original research inline|date=October 2010}} best evidenced by the naming of a crater on Mars after him, and a tribute interspersed by the [[Apollo 15]] astronauts into their radio conversations while on the moon.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Hammer and the Feather. Corrected transcript and commentary |url=https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/a15.clsout3.html |work=Apollo 15 Lunar Surface Journal |publisher=NASA |access-date=December 29, 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721181824/http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/a15.clsout3.html#1675120 |archive-date=July 21, 2019}}</ref>

Heinlein was also a guest commentator (along with fellow SF author [[Arthur C. Clarke]]) for [[Walter Cronkite]]'s coverage of the [[Apollo 11]] Moon landing.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PLTkYJ7C40& |title=CBS News - Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke interview with Walter Cronkite—Apollo 11 |date=October 6, 2016 |publisher=CBS News |access-date=June 17, 2020 |archive-date=July 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701075028/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PLTkYJ7C40& |url-status=live }}</ref> He remarked to Cronkite during the landing that, "This is the greatest event in human history, up to this time. This is—today is New Year's Day of the Year One."<ref>{{cite book|title= Robert A. Heinlein: 1907–1948, learning curve|last= Patterson|first= William|year= 2010|publisher= Tom Doherty Associates|location= New York|isbn= 978-0-7653-1960-9|page= 13|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Z93OvsN2yq8C&q=heinlein+cronkite&pg=PA13|access-date= April 12, 2011|archive-date= June 5, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210605003116/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z93OvsN2yq8C&q=heinlein+cronkite&pg=PA13|url-status= live}}</ref>

Heinlein has inspired many transformational figures in business and technology including [[Lee Felsenstein]], the designer of the first mass-produced portable computer,<ref>{{cite book |last=Levy |first=Steven |date=1984 |title=[[Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution]] |publisher=Anchor Press/Doubleday |page=159 |isbn=0-385-19195-2}}</ref> [[Marc Andreessen]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/marc-andreessen/ |title=Marc Andreessen on Learning to Love the Humanities (Ep. 152) The real challenge to building on the frontier? Figuring out human behavior. |last=Cowen |first=Tyler |date=June 15, 2022 |website=Conversations with Tyler |publisher=The Mercatus Center at George Mason University |access-date=June 28, 2022 |quote=I'm one of the few people I know who thinks that late Robert Heinlein was better than early Robert Heinlein. That had a really big effect on me.}}</ref> co-author of the first widely-used web browser, and [[Elon Musk]], CEO of [[Tesla, Inc.|Tesla]] and founder of [[SpaceX]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/the-science-fiction-books-that-inspired-elon-musk_b67209 |title=Science Fiction Books That Inspired Elon Musk |website=Media Bistro: GalleyCat |first=Jason |last=Boog |date=March 19, 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516054940/http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/the-science-fiction-books-that-inspired-elon-musk_b67209 |archive-date=May 16, 2013}}</ref>