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Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and a former NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts. His 1998 memoir Rocket Boys (also published as October Sky ) was a New York Times Best Seller and was the basis for the 1999 film October Sky .
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 book of the same name, tells the 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 eventually ...
Homer Hickam (born 1943), American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer October Sky: The Homer Hickam Story, 1999 American biographical film; Horace Meek Hickam (1885–1934), pioneer airpower advocate and officer in the United States Army Air Corps; Places. Hickam Air Force Base (formerly Hickam Field), United States Air Force ...
Homer Hickam, author and aerospace engineer [175] Michel Houellebecq, French writer [176] David Mamet, playwright and filmmaker [177] Dave Ramsey, writer and radio personality [178] Bret Weinstein, podcaster and author [179] Naomi Wolf, feminist author, journalist, and conspiracy theorist [180]
Homer "Sonny" Hickam Jr. is the author and narrator of the memoir. He is 8 years old at the beginning of the story but is in high school for most of the book. He serves as the leader of the Rocket Boys. He is nearsighted, wears glasses, and plays in the school band. Elsie Hickam is Homer Hickam's wife and the mother of Jim and "Sonny" Hickam ...
The House Jan. 6 committee has released a short, teaser-type video that appears to offer a preview of some of the witness testimony that will likely be shown during Thursday night’s primetime ...
Jennifer Crumbley's trial on involuntary manslaughter charges, the first like it in U.S. history seeking to hold a parent accountable for a school shooting, resumes at 8:30 a.m. Friday.
The recording by Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers is featured in the 1973 film American Graffiti, in a scene where Richard Dreyfuss's character first notices a mysterious blonde girl; as well as the 1999 film October Sky, it is featured when Jake Gyllenhaal's character Homer Hickam and his friends are spending the night out at the dance club.