Rocket boys : a memoir /
Hickam, Homer H., 1943-
Rocket boys : a memoir / Homer H. Hickam, Jr. - New York : Delta, 2000, c1998. - xiv, 368 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Coalwood -- Sputnik -- Mom -- The football fathers -- Quentin -- Mr. Bykovski -- Cape Coalwood -- Construction of the Cape -- Jake Mosby -- Miss Riley -- Rocket candy -- The machinists -- The rocket book -- The pillar explosion -- The state troopers -- A natural arrogance -- Valentine -- The bump -- Picking up and going on -- O'Dell's treasure -- Zincoshine -- We do the math -- Science fairs -- A suit for Indianapolis -- The national science fair -- All systems go.
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.
0385333218 (pbk.) 9780385333214 (pbk.)
Hickam, Homer H., 1943-
Aerospace engineers--United States--Biography.
Rocket boys : a memoir / Homer H. Hickam, Jr. - New York : Delta, 2000, c1998. - xiv, 368 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Coalwood -- Sputnik -- Mom -- The football fathers -- Quentin -- Mr. Bykovski -- Cape Coalwood -- Construction of the Cape -- Jake Mosby -- Miss Riley -- Rocket candy -- The machinists -- The rocket book -- The pillar explosion -- The state troopers -- A natural arrogance -- Valentine -- The bump -- Picking up and going on -- O'Dell's treasure -- Zincoshine -- We do the math -- Science fairs -- A suit for Indianapolis -- The national science fair -- All systems go.
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.
0385333218 (pbk.) 9780385333214 (pbk.)
Hickam, Homer H., 1943-
Aerospace engineers--United States--Biography.