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Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and a former NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts. His 1998 memoir Rocket Boys (also published as October Sky ) was a New York Times Best Seller and was the basis for the 1999 film October Sky .
Homer "Sonny" Hickam, Jr. is the fun main kid and narrator of the story. He is 8 years old at the beginning of the story, and serves as the unspoken leader of the Rocket Boys. He is very nearsighted and requires glasses. Jim is his star athlete brother, and Homer Hickam, the mine superintendent, is his dad.
Jim Hickam is Homer Hickam Jr.'s older brother and the son of Elsie and Homer Hickam. He is a star athlete, which leads to him having several conflicts with "Sonny" over how Homer seems to favor Jim over "Sonny". He dates the girl Sonny is in love with, Dorothy Plunk, but later dumps her like he does with many of his girlfriends.
October Sky is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by Joe Johnston, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, and Laura Dern.The screenplay by Lewis Colick, based on the book of the same name, tells the story of Homer H. Hickam Jr., a coal miner's son who was inspired by the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 to take up rocketry against his father's wishes and eventually ...
Hickam may refer to: Surname. Homer Hickam (born 1943), American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer October Sky: The Homer Hickam Story, 1999 American biographical film; Horace Meek Hickam (1885–1934), pioneer airpower advocate and officer in the United States Army Air Corps; Places
Homer James Jigme Gere, 24, joined his father on the red carpet for the premiere of his father’s new film Oh, Canada, on Friday, May 17. While Gere and Homer looked dashing in matching black ...
Sky of Stone is a memoir by Homer Hickam, Jr. about his hometown of Coalwood, West Virginia, the third in a trilogy that began with Rocket Boys and continued with The Coalwood Way. The book was published by Delacorte Press in October 2001, [1] with a mass-market paperback edition from Dell in October 2002. [2]
Jim Biden converted the garage of his brother's house into an apartment, helping with the boys in Delaware as the new senator shuttled back and forth to Washington.