#50 - Homer Hickam
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English - February 14, 2023 06:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsArts celebrities music musicians comedians politicians religion theology podcasts entrepreneur current events Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Homer Hickam 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. Hickam's body of written work also includes several additional best-selling memoirs and novels, including the "Josh Thurlow" historical fiction novels, his 2015 best-selling Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Man, his Wife, and her Alligator and in 2021 the sequel to Rocket Boys titled Don't Blow Yourself Up: The Further Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky.
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