"Homer Hickam"

October 1957,the first artificial satellite, Sputnik-1, a Russian scientific marvel sprang into orbit.
With it rocketed the aspirations of a small boy in a Mine Town of West Virginia.Defying destiny which was bound to shackle him to the mines to Appalachians, Homer Hickam went on to become one of the greatest engineers America has ever produced. An Industrial Engineering graduate, Mr. Homer was US military and alter by NASA.He was involved in many significant Space Shuttle and Space Lab missions which included Hubble Space telescope and International Space Station.A writer extraordinaire, his childhood memoir "Rocket Boys" was a literary blockbuster.The famous movie "October Sky"(1999; the word is an anagram of "Rocket Boys") is based on his life and his trial and error adventure with rockets.