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Podcast: Truckers Network Radio Show
Episode: Author Homer Hickam Discusses His New Book & What Inspired October Sky
Description: Retired NASA engineer and author Homer Hickam is a true inspiration and proof of the American dream. His real-life story Rocket Boys was a #1 New York Times best selling memoir that inspired the movie October Sky. It is a story of a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space and did. Homer inspired that in high school and went onto work on the Hubble Space telescope, trained U.S. and Japanese astronauts, helped negotiate the use of the International Space Station with the Russians and flew with General Chuck Yeager. Homer has had led a...