"The story of Homer Hickam and the Rocket Boys reminds us of the importance of education, and the way dreams can lift us all," Mitchell Superintendent Joe Childs writes.

But when the echoes died away, folks shrugged and said, "It's just those damn rocket boys!" Raised in Appalachian coal country, Homer H. Hickam, Jr., might well have followed his father and ...

Much of this history captured in the book Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam, which is well worth a read. This week’s Hacklet is dedicated to some of the best rocketry projects on Hackaday.io!

It was reminiscent of another young man who had the odds stacked against him and set out to prove people wrong: Homer Hickam ... like the Rocket Boys, were ready to defy expectations.

Hickam, the author of the memoir Rocket Boys (which was turned into the film October... Following The Keeper's Son , this is the second in Hickam's superb series about the WWII adventures of U.S ...

Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to command the International Space Station, and Homer Hickam, a former NASA engineer and author of the book "Rocket Boys," talk about the mission and what's next ...

Produced by Allen Media Strategies Burke Allen and co-hosted by longtime AMS clients Homer Hickam and Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. along with actor an ...