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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 ...
October Sky is the first memoir in a series of four, by American engineer Homer Hickam Jr. originally published in 1998 as Rocket Boys. Later editions were published under the title October Sky as a tie-in to the 1999 film adaptation. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a coal mining town.
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.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rose into the night sky for an on-time liftoff of 8:32 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40 on May 17, 2024. The rocket launch is seen from the Vero Beach High ...
Updated October 14, 2024 at 7:08 PM. SpaceX's megarocket, Starship, lifted off from Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, for its fifth test flight. ... the company is on track to reduce rocket-launch ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rose into the night sky for an on-time liftoff of 8:32 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40 on May 17, 2024. The rocket launch is seen from the Vero Beach High ...
9 October 1973: Successful Parachute failed to deploy during recovery 6 October 12:30 Voskhod (R-7 11A57) Plesetsk Kosmos 597 (Zenit 4MK) MOM Low Earth Reconnaissance: 12 October 1973: Successful 10 October 10:45 Voskhod (R-7 11A57) Plesetsk Kosmos 598 (Zenit 4M) MOM Low Earth Reconnaissance: 16 October 1973: Successful 15 October 08:45 Voskhod ...
A SpaceX rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral just before 5 a.m. Within a few minutes, the craft — ferrying a load of satellites into orbit — was visible miles in the sky up and down the coast.