Cielo de octubre (Rocket Boys)

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Release Date: 09/26/2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol
Classification: Nonfiction
Classification: Nonfiction
Series: Coalwood Series
Language: Spanish
Format: Unabridged edition
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Science & Technology
Author: Homer H. Hickam, Jr.
Read by: Alberto Santillan
Duration: 884 minutes
Run Time: 884 minutes
Language: Spanish
Language: Spanish
12 Audio CD(s) - 9781520087344

Cielo de octubre (Rocket Boys)

By Homer H. Hickam, Jr.

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Science & Technology

Audio CD

12/05/2017

12 Audio CD

884 minutes

9781520087344

Description:

In a town where the only things that mattered were coal-mining and high-school football, where the future was regarded with more fear than hope, a young man watched the Soviet satellite Sputnik race across the West Virginia sky and soon found his future in the stars. In 1957, Homer H. Sonny Hickam, Jr., and a handful of his friends were inspired to start designing and launching the home-made rockets that would change their lives and their town forever. Looking back after a distinguished NASA career, Hickam shares the story of his youth, taking readers into the life of the little mining town of Coalwood and the boys who would come to embody its dreams. Step by step, with the help (and occasional hindrance) of a collection of unforgettable characters, the boys learned not only how to turn scrap into sophisticated rockets that flew miles into the sky but also how to sustain their dreams as they dared to imagine a life beyond the borders of a town that the postwar boom was passing by.

Quotes:

A stirring tale that offers something unusual these days...a message of hope in an age of cynicism., San Diego Union-Tribune

[T]horoughly charming....Hickam builds a story of overcoming obstacles that is worthy of Frank Capra...[in its]...eloquent evocation of a lost time and place., Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, , New York Times

A great read...One closes the book with an immense feeling of satisfaction., Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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