It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian
sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was
slowly dying.
Faced with an uncertain future, Homer Hickam nurtured a
dream: to send rockets into outer space. The introspective
son of the mine’s superintendent and a mother determined to
get him out of Coalwood forever, Homer fell in with a group
of misfits who learned not only how to turn scraps of metal
into sophisticated rockets but how to sustain their hope in
a town that swallowed its men alive.
As the boys began to light up the tarry skies with their
flaming projectiles and dreams of glory, Coalwood, and the
Hickams, would never be the same.
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