Rocket Boys

  • Rocket Boys: A Memoir
    By Homer Hickam

    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.

  • Rocket Boys: A Memoir
    By Homer H. Hickam, Jr.

    An extraordinary memoir of Homer Sonny Hickam's life.

  • Rocket boys: Roman
    By Homer H. Hickam, Franca Fritz

    Rocket boys: Roman

  • Rocket Boys: A Memoir
    By Homer H. Hickam

    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.

  • Rocket boys
    By Homer H. Hickam

    En 1957, Homer Hickam a quatorze ans. Il vit à Coalwood, une ville minière de Virginie - Occidentale, aux Etats - Unis. À Coalwood, on est mineur de père en...

  • Rocket Boys
    By Homer Hickam

    Lush and lyrical, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir: A powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the end of the 1950s, of a mother’s love and a father’s fears, and of growing up and getting out.

  • Rocket Boys: A Memoir
    By Homer H. Hickam

    Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir -- a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space . . . and ...