{"product_id":"rocket-boys-a-true-story","title":"Rocket Boys: A True Story","description":"\u003cp\u003ePreviously published in paperback as October Sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree years in the life of Homer ‘Sonny’ Hickam, from the moment he sees the Sputnik satellite overhead in West Virginia to his successful launch of a prizewinning rocket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1957, Coalwood, West Virginia, was a town the post-war boom never quite reached, and dominated by the black steel towers of the mine. For fourteen-year-old Homer ‘Sonny’ Hickam there are only two routes in life: a college football scholarship, or a life underground. But from the moment the town turns out to watch the world’s first space satellite, Sputnik, as it passes overhead, Sonny and his friends embark on a mission of their own – to form the Big Creek Missile Agency, and build a rocket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLooking back after a distinguished career as a NASA engineer, Homer Hickam tells the warm, vivid story of youth and ambition that inspired the 1999 film October Sky. It is the tale of a group of teenage boys who dared to imagine a life beyond the confines of the coal pit, and went on to design, build and launch the rockets that would change their lives, and their town, forever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54009151422832,"sku":"978-0008166083","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_5831_fcd3abcb8c.jpg?v=1783582274","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/de\/products\/rocket-boys-a-true-story","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}