Homer Hickam

Rocket Boys

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Previously published in paperback as October Sky. Three years in the life of Homer â Sonnyâ Hickam, from the moment he sees the Sputnik satellite overhead in West Virginia to his successful launch of a prizewinning rocket.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9780008166083
• ISBN-10: 0008166080
• Artikelnr.: 44115067

Autorenporträt

Unusually for 50s' West Viriginia, all the Rocket Boys went to college and on to professional careers. Homer Hickam, 21 years after the BCMA fired its final rocket, joined NASA as an engineer at the Marshall Space Flights Centre from which he retired in 1997.