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0-385-33422-2 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-440-23538-5 (mass market paperback) Back to the Moon is a science fiction novel and Homer Hickam 's first fictional book. Published in June 1999, Hickam wrote Back to the Moon using insider information he learned from NASA .
[citation needed] He has since co-written a musical play entitled Rocket Boys the Musical, [19] which, according to Homer Hickam, tells a story closer to the one in his book. [20] Hickam's first fiction novel was Back to the Moon (1999), [21] which was released as a hardcover, audiobook, and eBook. [22] It has also been translated into Chinese ...
October Sky is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by Joe Johnston, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen and Laura Dern.The screenplay by Lewis Colick, based on the memoir of the same name, tells the true story of Homer H. Hickam Jr., a coal miner's son who was inspired by the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 to take up rocketry against his father's wishes and ...
October Sky is the first memoir in a series of four, by American engineer Homer Hickam Jr. originally published in 1998 as Rocket Boys. Later editions were published under the title October Sky as a tie-in to the 1999 film adaptation. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a coal mining town.
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun ( US: / ˌvɜːrnər vɒn ˈbraʊn / VUR-nər von BROWN, German: [ˌvɛʁnheːɐ̯ fɔn ˈbʁaʊ̯n]; 23 March 1912 – 16 June 1977) was a German-American aerospace engineer [ 3] and space architect. He was a member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS, the leading figure in the development of rocket ...
Sky of Stone. First edition (publ. Delacorte Press) Sky of Stone is the second in a trilogy of memoirs by Homer Hickam, Jr. about his hometown of Coalwood, West Virginia, that began with October Sky . In Sky of Stone, Hickam has gone off to college at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. His mother, who is living separated from her husband in Myrtle ...
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I’ve written about so many subjects the last few months: China, India, Venice, Madrid. This week, I’d like to stay local, more or less, and write about one painting. Kissing the Moon, by ...