Cover of Rocket Boys

Book 1999

Rocket Boys

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Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Language
English
Published
1999
  • Biography
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • United States
  • Scientists - General
  • General
  • Aerospace engineers
  • Aeronautics & Astronautics
  • Aeronautics

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.