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Homer H. Hickam
Homer H. Hickman graduated from Big Creek High School in 1960 and pursued his dream of launching rockets through a BSc in Industrial Engineering. After military service in Vietnam, for which he was decorated, he worked for a variety of rocket engine programmes. In 1981 he joined NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Centre, assigned to the Spacelab Program, a co-operative venture with the European Space Agency to produce a science laboratory in space. Homer H. Hickman is the author of Torpedo Junction, an account of the US war against German U-boats in World War II, an award-winning underwater photographer and a confirmed anglophile who would like to travel by Concorde.
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OCTOBER SKY
Three years in the life of Homer ‘Sonny’ Hickam, from the moment he sees the Sputnik satellite overhead in West Virginia to his successful launch of a prizewinning rocket. A nostalgic and lyrical memoir of growing up in rural West Virginia in the 1950s and one boy’s dream to rival the Russians in the race for space.
Publication date: UK 4th Mar 2011
