Rocket BoysPreviously published in paperback as October Sky. Three 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. In 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