Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam

The 1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoira powerful luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s of a mothers love and a fathers 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 t