Homer Hickam
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title:
Homer Hickam
text:
Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and a former NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts. His 1998 memoir Rocket Boys 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 Alli
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American author and engineer (born 1943)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Hickam
date created:
2004-08-01T01:55:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T00:57:18Z
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