
Rocket boys: a memoir
Movie and television tie-ins, Biography, Science and medicine biography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
A retired NASA engineer reminisces about his boyhood in the Sputnik era in West Virginia, when his first rocket attempt burned down his mother's garden fence. He and his friends improved their models culminating in winning the 1960 National Science… Fair. The movie October Sky is based on this book. 1998.