| Description |
xvi, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 18 cm |
| Note |
A Dell book. |
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Originally published as: Rocket boys. |
| Contents |
Coalwood -- Sputnik -- Mom -- The football fathers -- Quentin -- Mr. Bykovski -- Cape Coalwood -- Construction of the Cape -- Jake Mosby -- Miss Riley -- Rocket candy -- The machinists -- The rocket book -- The pillar explosion -- The state troopers -- A natural arrogance -- Valentine -- The bump -- Picking up and going on -- O'Dell's treasure -- Zincoshine -- We do the math -- Science fairs -- A suit for Indianapolis -- The National Science Fair -- All systems go. |
| Summary |
Homer Hickam looks back after a distinguished NASA career to tell his own true story of growing up in a dying coal town and of how, against the odds, he made his dreams of launching rockets into outer space come true. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.9 21.0 35205. |
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Reading Counts RC High School 6.5 25 Quiz: 16195 Guided reading level: NR. |
| Audience |
900 Lexile |
| Subject |
Hickam, Homer H., 1943-
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Aerospace engineers -- United States -- Biography.
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West Virginia -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780440235507 (paperback) |
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0440235502 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
071009007994 |
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