Dave Thomas
Rocket Boy
Search results
Mar 17, 2021 · Originally published on: Mar 17, 2021. Raised in Coalwood, West Virginia, Homer Hickam Jr. began his love of space at an early age. Along with his friends, they named themselves the “Big Creek Missile Agency.”. Yet to the town, they were known as “The Rocket Boys,” which became the title of one of Hickam’s best sellers.
Homer Hickam’s short article about his life as a young boy growing up in Coalwood, WV and aspiring to be a rocket scientist was called “The Big Creek Missile Agency” and was written for Air & Space Magazine in 1994. Rocket Boys has been translated into eight languages and has received many awards. It was selected by the New York Times as ...
Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and a former NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts. His 1998 memoir Rocket Boys (also published as October Sky) was a New York Times Best Seller and was the basis for the 1999 film October Sky. Hickam's body of written work also ...
- Author
- Linda Terry Hickam, Paula Morgan (div. 1986)
October Sky. (book) October Sky is the first memoir in a series of four, by American engineer Homer Hickam Jr. originally published in 1998 as Rocket Boys. Later editions were published under the title October Sky as a tie-in to the 1999 film adaptation. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a ...
- Homer H. Hickam
- non-fiction, memoir
- 1998
- 384
People also ask
Who were the Rocket Boys?
What was Rocket Boys about?
Who plays Hickam in Rocket Boys?
Is Rocket Boys a good book?
Jan 1, 2001 · Sputnik is launched on October 4, 1957. Teenage Homer Hickam Jr. Sonny and his friends - Quintin, Roy Lee, Sherman, O’Dell, and Billy - form the 'Big Creek Missile Agency' and proceed to build and launch rockets. The boys name their rockets Auk, after the extinct flightless bird.
Jan 24, 2023 · Since its publication in 1998, Homer Hickam’s coming-of-age memoir Rocket Boys, about the rocket aspirations of a young boy from a coal mining town in West Virginia, has been offering insights and inspiration to young and old alike. Prior to becoming a writer, Hickam was a NASA engineer and served in the Vietnam War.
