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Rocket Boys

Rocket Boys

Homer H. Hickam · 1998 · 368 pages

Aerospace engineersBiographyCoal mines and miningRocket scientistsEngineers, biography

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Homer Hickam, a NASA engineer, recounts his childhood in Coalwood, a West Virginia mining town, and discusses his dreams of launching rockets into outer space, and how he made those dreams come true.

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