The Moon Goddess and the Son is a science fiction novel by American writer Donald Kingsbury, published by Baen in 1986.

The novel was an expanded version of a novella published in the December 1979 issue of Analog magazine, which was a nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1980.

Along with the novella, Kingsbury and Roger Arnold published a nonfiction article describing the technologies used in the story for achieving cheap access to Low Earth orbit and beyond.

[1][2] Their LEOport station allows suborbital IMP vehicles to pop up and align themselves with a 100km long deceleration track.

[3] Non-rocket spacelaunch This article about a 1980s science fiction novel is a stub.