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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 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.
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- Linda Terry Hickam, Paula Morgan (div. 1986)
The Rocket Boy: Directed by John Blanchard, Peter Hudecki. With Dave Thomas, Ron James, Mark Parr, Gillie Fenwick. In this Sci-fi Comedy a gentle video clerk has a secret double life as an intergalactic crime-fighter who must stop an evil alien from stealing the hair off human heads.
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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.
In 1957, the Soviet Union launches a satellite called Sputnik into space. Homer and his friends gather outside to watch Sputnik pass over Coalwood. As he watches, Homer realizes that his greatest ambition is to build rockets, and eventually to build satellites for the government, like his hero, Dr. Wernher von Braun.
Jan 11, 2000 · Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1) Paperback – January 11, 2000. by Homer Hickam (Author) 4.7 3,189 ratings. Book 1 of 3: The Coalwood Series. See all formats and editions.
