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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 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 the first memoir in a series of four, by American engineer Homer Hickam Jr. originally published in 1998 as Rocket Boys. Later editions were published under the title October Sky as a tie-in to the 1999 film adaptation. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a coal
October Sky (1999) October Sky tells the true story of Homer Hickam (played by Jake Gyllenhaal), the son of a coal miner from West Virginia. After watching the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1 launch in ...
October Sky is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Joe Johnston based on the memoir by Homer Hickam, Jr. October Sky may also refer to October Sky (band) October Sky, (originally published as Rocket Boys), the 1998 memoir by Homer Hickam Jr
Cooper was born on July 9, 1951, in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Charles and Mary Ann (Walton) Cooper. [1] [2] He has an older brother, Chuck Cooper (born 1948). [3]His father was both a United States Air Force doctor and a cattleman, and his mother was a housewife.
In the summer of 2016, he appeared as Baby John in West Side Story at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, alongside Jeremy Jordan and Karen Olivo. [28] Selig starred as Homer Hickam in the musical, October Sky, inspired by the film of the same name at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in the fall of 2016.
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