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Rocket Boys
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Author : Homer Hickam
language : en
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Release Date : 2015-11-19
Rocket Boys written by Homer Hickam and has been published by Fourth Estate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-19 with Aerospace engineers categories.
Previously published in paperback as October Sky. Three years in the life of Homer 'Sonny' Hickam, from the moment he sees the Sputnik satellite overhead in West Virginia to his successful launch of a prizewinning rocket. In 1957, Coalwood, West Virginia, was a town the post-war boom never quite reached, and dominated by the black steel towers of the mine. For fourteen-year-old Homer 'Sonny' Hickam there are only two routes in life: a college football scholarship, or a life underground. But from the moment the town turns out to watch the world's first space satellite, Sputnik, as it passes overhead, Sonny and his friends embark on a mission of their own - to form the Big Creek Missile Agency, and build a rocket. Looking back after a distinguished career as a NASA engineer, Homer Hickam tells the warm, vivid story of youth and ambition that inspired the 1999 film October Sky. It is the tale of a group of teenage boys who dared to imagine a life beyond the confines of the coal pit, and went on to design, build and launch the rockets that would change their lives, and their town, forever.
Rocket Boys
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Author : Homer Hickam
language : en
Publisher: Dell
Release Date : 1999-04-01
Rocket Boys written by Homer Hickam and has been published by Dell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space . . . and who made those dreams come true. With the grace of a natural storyteller, NASA engineer Homer Hickam paints a warm, vivid portrait of the harsh West Virginia mining town of his youth, evoking a time of innocence and promise, when anything was possible, even in a company town that swallowed its men alive. A story of romance and loss, of growing up and getting out, Homer Hickam's lush, lyrical memoir is a chronicle of triumph—at once exquisitely written and marvelously entertaining. One of the most beloved bestsellers in recent years, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir. A powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the end of the 1950s, it is the story of a mother's love and a father's fears, of growing up and getting out. With the grace of a natural storyteller, Homer Hickam looks back after a distinguished NASA career to tell his own true story of growing up in a dying coal town and of how, against the odds, he made his dreams of launching rockets into outer space come true. A story of romance and loss and a keen portrait of life at an extraordinary point in American history, Rocket Boys is a chronicle of triumph.
Rocket Boys
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Author : Homer H. Hickam
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Rocket Boys written by Homer H. Hickam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Aerospace engineers categories.
Rocket Boys
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Author : Homer H. Hickam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Rocket Boys written by Homer H. Hickam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A memoir of Coalwood, W. Virginia, where the author learned to build rockets.
Rocket Boys
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Author : Homer H. Hickam, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 1998
Rocket Boys written by Homer H. Hickam, Jr. and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Aerospace engineers categories.
An extraordinary memoir of Homer Sonny Hickam's life. The introspective second son of the mine's superintendent and a mother determined to push her son to a better life, Sonny fell in with a group of misfits. But in 1957, after watching the Soviet satellite Sputnik streak across the sky, Sonny and his buddies took their future into their own hands.
October Sky
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Author : Homer Hickam
language : en
Publisher: Dell
Release Date : 1999-02-16
October Sky written by Homer Hickam and has been published by Dell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-02-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The true story, originally published as Rocket Boys, that inspired the Universal Pictures film. It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was slowly dying. Faced with an uncertain future, Homer Hickam nurtured a dream: to send rockets into outer space. The introspective son of the mine’s superintendent and a mother determined to get him out of Coalwood forever, Homer fell in with a group of misfits who learned not only how to turn scraps of metal into sophisticated rockets but how to sustain their hope in a town that swallowed its men alive. As the boys began to light up the tarry skies with their flaming projectiles and dreams of glory, Coalwood, and the Hickams, would never be the same.
The Coalwood Way
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Author : Homer Hickam
language : en
Publisher: Island Books
Release Date : 2007-12-18
The Coalwood Way written by Homer Hickam and has been published by Island Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It's fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching handbuilt rockets that soar thousands of feet into the West Virginia sky. But in a season traditionally marked by celebrations of the spirit, Coalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads. The strains can be felt within the Hickam home, where a beleaguered HomerSr. is resorting to a daring but risky plan to keep the mine alive, and his wife Elsie is feeling increasingly isolated from both her family and the townspeople. And Sonny, despite a blossoming relationship with a local girl whose dreams are as big as his, finds his own mood repeatedly darkened by an unexplainable sadness. Eager to rally the town's spirits and make her son's final holiday season at home a memorable one, Elsie enlists Sonny and the Rocket Boys' aid in making the Coalwood Christmas Pageant the best ever. But trouble at the mine and the arrival of a beautiful young outsider threaten to tear the community apart when it most needs to come together. And when disaster strikes at home, and Elsie's beloved pet squirrel escapes under his watch, Sonny realizes that helping his town and redeeming himself in his mother's eyes may be a bigger-and more rewarding-challenge than he has ever faced. The result is pure storytelling magic- a tale of small-town parades and big-hearted preachers, the timeless love of families and unforgettable adventures of boyhood friends-that could only come from the man who brought the world Rocket Boys
Rocket Boys
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Author : Homer H. Hickam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Rocket Boys written by Homer H. Hickam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Aerospace engineers categories.
Homer Hickam, a NASA engineer, recounts his childhood in Coalwood, a West Virginia mining town, and discusses his dreams of launching rockets into outer space, and how he made those dreams come true.
Don T Blow Yourself Up
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Author : Homer Hickam
language : en
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Release Date : 2021-10-19
Don T Blow Yourself Up written by Homer Hickam and has been published by Post Hill Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Homer Hickam’s memoir Rocket Boys and the movie adaptation October Sky have become one of the most popular stories in the world, inspiring millions to pursue a better life. But what happened to Homer after he was a West Virginia rocket boy? In his latest memoir, Homer recounts his life in college where he built the world's biggest, baddest game cannon, fought through some of the worst battles in Vietnam, became a scuba instructor, discovered sunken U-boats, wrote the definitive account of a World War II naval battle, befriended Tom Clancy, made a desperate attempt to save the passengers of a sunken river boat, trained the first Japanese astronauts, taught David Letterman to scuba dive, helped to fix the Hubble Space Telescope, wrote his number one bestselling Rocket Boys, and was on set during the making of October Sky. Although told with humor and wit, Hickam does not shy away from the pain and hardship endured and the mistakes he made during the tumultuous decades since his life in the town he made famous—Coalwood, West Virginia.
Rocket Boys Hb Header
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Author : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
language : en
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Release Date : 1998-10-29
Rocket Boys Hb Header written by HarperCollins Publishers Limited and has been published by Fourth Estate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-10-29 with categories.