Rocket Boys: A Memoir
- ISBN-10
- 0385333218
- ISBN-13
- 9780385333214
- Series
- Rocket Boys
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Random House Digital, Inc.
- Author
- Homer Hickam
Description
The author traces the boyhood enthusiasm for rockets that eventually led to a career at NASA, describing how he built model rockets in the family garage in West Virginia, inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik. Reprint.
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