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issued a proclamation in honor of Hickam for his support of his home state and his distinguished career as both an engineer and author and declared an annual "Rocket Boys Day".
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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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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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His books have been translated into many languages.
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1968:. Allen Media Strategies. Archived from
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1205:"Mother of Homer Hickam dies at 97"
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2296:New York Times Review of Books
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2088:"The Homer Hickam Collection"
2063:"Reflections of a rocket boy"
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654:Outer Banks of North Carolina
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2568:American aerospace engineers
2563:Novelists from West Virginia
2388:. New York: Delacorte Press.
1517:– via Newspapers.com.
656:. The series continued with
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1584:– via Newspapers.com.
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873:Spirit of America Festival
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2522:Coalwood, West Virginia
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2314:Rocket Boys/October Sky
2279:Dugger, Charles M. Jr.
1663:West Virginia MetroNews
1304:"Coalwood Confidential"
1184:"Elsie Gardener Hickam"
1158:An Amazon Kindle Single
1150:An Amazon Kindle Single
851:Homer Hickam Collection
763:Rocket Boys the Musical
604:Rocket Boys the Musical
547:Coalwood, West Virginia
425:Army Commendation Medal
335:Coalwood, West Virginia
273:Homer Hadley Hickam Jr.
243:Army Commendation Medal
130:The Josh Thurlow series
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57:Homer Hadley Hickam Jr.
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2061:Cox, Clara B. (2009).
1538:Hickam, Homer (1999).
987:Don't Blow Yourself Up
793:National Space Council
759:Lincolnshire, Illinois
684:, a multi-millionaire
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2028:Montgomery Advertiser
1278:"Liftoff in Coalwood"
907:Rocket Boys: A Memoir
779:zero tolerance policy
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339:Big Creek High School
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163:Elsie Hickam (mother)
121:Rocket Boys: A Memoir
2558:Virginia Tech alumni
2355:Sturdevant, Rick W.
2176:The Huntsville Times
1868:The Washington Times
1232:"'October Sky' high"
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1029:The Ambassador's Son
971:Carrying Albert Home
755:Carrying Albert Home
658:The Ambassador's Son
165:Jim Hickam (brother)
2573:Appalachian writers
2409:Homer H. Hickam Jr.
2204:The Birmingham News
2118:Marshall University
2094:on October 29, 2013
1792:"We Are Not Afraid"
1711:The Courier-Journal
1362:on February 3, 2009
1131:The Dinosaur Hunter
883:Shepherd University
862:Marshall University
860:in Literature from
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694:The Dinosaur Hunter
652:(2003), set on the
516:American east coast
368:Bachelor of Science
296:(also published as
285:Japanese astronauts
277:Vietnam War veteran
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2371:Publishers' Weekly
2343:The Social Studies
2124:on August 25, 2018
1918:Deadline Hollywood
1871:. Associated Press
1744:"Back to the Moon"
1706:"Back to the moon"
1393:The Herald Journal
1282:The New York Times
858:honorary doctorate
564:The New York Times
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151:Linda Terry Hickam
110:historical fiction
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2325:Current Biography
2312:"A Reflection on
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2009:National Archives
1794:. HomerHickam.com
1746:. HomerHickam.com
1613:on April 27, 2019
1506:Home News Tribune
1463:The Decatur Daily
1215:on July 21, 2012.
1188:The Roanoke Times
955:We Are Not Afraid
751:We Are Not Afraid
735:Universal Studios
696:, a novel set in
678:My Dream of Stars
585:Universal Studios
421:Bronze Star Medal
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66:February 19, 1943
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1086:: A Novel (
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405:Vietnam War
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310:October Sky
305:Best Seller
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293:Rocket Boys
287:. His 1998
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360:"Skipper"
194:1964–1970
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158:Relatives
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