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October Sky: A Memoir
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Dell Pub Co
Publication date
March 1, 1999
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780440235507
ISBN-10
0440235502
Dimensions
1 by 4.25 by 6.75 in.
Weight
0.50 lbs.
Original list price
$7.99
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The author traces the boyhood enthusiasm for rockets that eventually led to a career at NASA, describing how he built model rockets in the family garage in West Virginia, inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik. Originally published as Rocket Boys. Reissue.
(view table of contents)Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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, Sonny Hickam (aka Homer Hickam, Jr.) nurtured a dream: to learn how to build a rocket so he could work in the space business. The introspective son of Homer Hickam, the mine superintendent, and Elsie Lavender Hickam, a woman determined to get her sons out of Coalwood forever, Sonny gathered in five other boys and convinced them to help him. Along the way, the boys learn not only how to turn scraps of metal into sophisticated rockets but manage to give the people of Coalwood hope that the future will be brighter, at least for their children. As Sonny's parents fight in different ways to save their sons, and the people of Coalwood come together to help their Rocket Boys, Sonny and the Big Creek Missile Agency light up the sky with their flaming projectiles and dreams of glory.
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Paperback
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from Dell Pub Co (March 1, 1999)
9780440235507 | details & prices | 4.25 × 6.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $7.99
About: The author traces the boyhood enthusiasm for rockets that eventually led to a career at NASA, describing how he built model rockets in the family garage in West Virginia, inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite 'Sputnik'
About: The author traces the boyhood enthusiasm for rockets that eventually led to a career at NASA, describing how he built model rockets in the family garage in West Virginia, inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite 'Sputnik'
Reinforced
With Homer H. Hickam |
from Demco Media (June 1, 1999)
9780606189347 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.25 × 1.50 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $16.80
About: The author traces the boyhood enthusiasm for rockets that eventually led to a career at NASA, describing how he built model rockets in the family garage in West Virginia, inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite 'Sputnik'
About: The author traces the boyhood enthusiasm for rockets that eventually led to a career at NASA, describing how he built model rockets in the family garage in West Virginia, inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite 'Sputnik'
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