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.
Title Details
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Copyright Date
1998
Book number
2538580
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
John Polk
Duration
14 hours 35 minutes 37 seconds
Audio producer
Library of Congress, NLS/BPH (Louisville, KY : American Printing House for the Blind), 1999.