"Searchlight" is a very short science fiction story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a little blind girl whose spaceship crashes on the Moon. Heinlein says that it was "a tour de force; required: to tell a story in 1200 words which legitimately involved electronics". Perhaps because of this, along with the relatively lower profits, it was the last short story Heinlein wrote; the remaining quarter-century of his career was devoted to writing novels and non-fiction essays.
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In the Expanded Universe collection, Heinlein suggests that the story may have been inspired by a real-life incident in 1931. A group of fighter planes got lost during a war game and could not find their carrier. In those days before radar, Heinlein was manning the carrier's radio compass, but its limitations could not locate the squadron. Fortunately, the planes saw the fleet's suddenly lit searchlights, and they landed just in time.