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We Are Not Afraid: Strength and Courage from the Town That Inspired the #1 Bestseller and Award-Winning Movie October Sky
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Don't Blow Yourself Up: The Further Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky.
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Q&A with Homer Hickam:Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company
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Owens, William T. "Country Roads, Hollers, Coal Towns, and Much More".
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The Infinite Journey: Eyewitness Accounts of NASA and the Age of Space
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Struckel, Katie. "Remembering with Homer H. Hickam Jr." (interview).
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The Helium-3 Trilogy: Crater, Crescent, and The Lunar Rescue Company
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Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War off America's East Coast, 1942
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Cover of Hickam's book, "Rocket Boys" Published in 1998.
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Homer H. Hickam Jr. (aerospace engineer and writer).
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for fraud and breach of contract over rights to his
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1880:"Book Review: Don't Blow Yourself Up – NSS"
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1957:. Allen Media Strategies. Archived from
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1621:Clinton, Paul (February 18, 1999).
1488:Cantley, Rebeccah (July 18, 1999).
1194:"Mother of Homer Hickam dies at 97"
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473:International Space Station program
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2214:Butler, Hayley (October 3, 2014).
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272:engineer who trained the first
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2077:"The Homer Hickam Collection"
2052:"Reflections of a rocket boy"
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643:Outer Banks of North Carolina
2602:Engineers from West Virginia
2557:American aerospace engineers
2552:Novelists from West Virginia
2377:. New York: Delacorte Press.
1506:– via Newspapers.com.
645:. The series continued with
570:National Book Critics Circle
380:Military service (1964–1970)
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2305:in the Science Classroom".
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862:Spirit of America Festival
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449:Neutral Buoyancy Simulator
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208:Fourth Infantry Division
142:Paula Morgan (div. 1986)
2587:American male novelists
2511:Coalwood, West Virginia
2309:, May 2000. 29(6), 399.
2303:Rocket Boys/October Sky
2268:Dugger, Charles M. Jr.
1652:West Virginia MetroNews
1293:"Coalwood Confidential"
1173:"Elsie Gardener Hickam"
1147:An Amazon Kindle Single
1139:An Amazon Kindle Single
840:Homer Hickam Collection
752:Rocket Boys the Musical
593:Rocket Boys the Musical
536:Coalwood, West Virginia
414:Army Commendation Medal
324:Coalwood, West Virginia
262:Homer Hadley Hickam Jr.
232:Army Commendation Medal
119:The Josh Thurlow series
61:Coalwood, West Virginia
46:Homer Hadley Hickam Jr.
2056:Virginia Tech Magazine
2050:Cox, Clara B. (2009).
1527:Hickam, Homer (1999).
976:Don't Blow Yourself Up
782:National Space Council
748:Lincolnshire, Illinois
673:, a multi-millionaire
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2290:Hickam, Homer H. Jr.
2017:Montgomery Advertiser
1267:"Liftoff in Coalwood"
896:Rocket Boys: A Memoir
768:zero tolerance policy
722:In 2016, Hickam sued
519:Naval Institute Press
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328:Big Creek High School
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152:Elsie Hickam (mother)
110:Rocket Boys: A Memoir
2547:Virginia Tech alumni
2344:Sturdevant, Rick W.
2165:The Huntsville Times
1857:The Washington Times
1221:"'October Sky' high"
1179:. October 10, 2009.
1018:The Ambassador's Son
960:Carrying Albert Home
744:Carrying Albert Home
647:The Ambassador's Son
154:Jim Hickam (brother)
2562:Appalachian writers
2398:Homer H. Hickam Jr.
2193:The Birmingham News
2107:Marshall University
2083:on October 29, 2013
1781:"We Are Not Afraid"
1700:The Courier-Journal
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1120:The Dinosaur Hunter
872:Shepherd University
851:Marshall University
849:in Literature from
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683:The Dinosaur Hunter
641:(2003), set on the
505:American east coast
357:Bachelor of Science
285:(also published as
274:Japanese astronauts
266:Vietnam War veteran
2367:Publishers' Weekly
2360:Publishers' Weekly
2332:The Social Studies
2113:on August 25, 2018
1907:Deadline Hollywood
1860:. Associated Press
1733:"Back to the Moon"
1695:"Back to the moon"
1382:The Herald Journal
1271:The New York Times
847:honorary doctorate
553:The New York Times
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140:Linda Terry Hickam
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2350:Air Power History
2314:Current Biography
2301:"A Reflection on
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1998:National Archives
1783:. HomerHickam.com
1735:. HomerHickam.com
1602:on April 27, 2019
1495:Home News Tribune
1452:The Decatur Daily
1204:on July 21, 2012.
1177:The Roanoke Times
944:We Are Not Afraid
740:We Are Not Afraid
724:Universal Studios
685:, a novel set in
667:My Dream of Stars
574:Universal Studios
410:Bronze Star Medal
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131:We Are Not Afraid
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1885:January 15,
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1075:: A Novel (
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308:Rocket Boys
299:October Sky
294:Best Seller
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349:"Skipper"
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174:U.S. Army
147:Relatives
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