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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “nostalgic and entertaining memoir” (People) about a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space—the inspiration for the film October Sky“A message of hope in an age of cynicism.... Perhaps we all have something to learn from a half-dozen boys who dared to reject all limitations... and resolved to send dreams roaring to the sky.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune 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.With the grace of a natural storyteller, NASA engineer Homer Hickam paints a warm, vivid portrait of the harsh Wes

Who reads Rocket Boys : a Memoir?

Author

Homer Hickam, Homer H. Hickam

Publisher

Dell Reissue/Random House

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780440333876

Category

science

Subjects

Memoir, Family & Relationships, Engineering

Rating

4.18 / 5 (2,107 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14