[tps_title]Rocket Boys (or October Sky)- Homer Hickam [/tps_title]Written by Huntsville resident and former NASA engineer Homer HIckam, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir describing his coming of age at the end of the 1950s Space Race. It is the story of a mother’s love and a father’s fears, of growing up and getting out. With the grace of a natural storyteller, Homer Hickam looks back after a distinguished NASA career to tell his own true story of growing up in a dying coal town and of how, against the odds, he made his dreams of launching rockets into outer space come true.