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Hickam, Homer October Sky: A Memoir
Dell February 16, 19 0-440-23550-2 / 9780440235507 Paperback Very Good+
Inspired by Werner von Braun and his Cape Canaveral team, 14-year-old Homer Hickam decided in 1957 to build his own rockets. They were his ticket out of Coalwood, West Virginia, a mining town that everyone knew was dying--eve ryone except Sonny's father, the mine superintendent and a company man so d edicated that his family rarely saw him. Hickam's smart, iconoclastic mothe r wanted her son to become something more than a miner and, along with a fe male science teacher, encouraged the efforts of his grandiosely named Big C reek Missile Agency. He grew up to be a NASA engineer and his memoir of the bumpy ride toward a gold medal at the National Science Fair in 1960--an un precedented honor for a miner's kid--is rich in humor as well as warm senti ment. Hickam vividly evokes a world of close communal ties in which a store keeper who sold him saltpeter warned, "Listen, rocket boy. This stuff can b low you to kingdom come." Hickam is candid about the deep disagreements and tensions in his parents' marriage, even as he movingly depicts their quiet loyalty to each other. The portrait of his ultimately successful campaign to win his aloof father's respect is equally affecting.
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