The 20th annual Rocket Boys/October Sky Festival, set for Sept. 27-28, will be the last to feature appearances by Homer Hickam and the Rocket Boys. The release said this year’s festival will ...

The pair, who were on MetroNews Midday last week, said they are hoping to bring to life Hickam’s book The Coalwood Way, in ...

later became a NASA engineer and wrote a book he called “Rocket Boys,” about their experience. The book became the basis for the movie “October Sky,” starring Jake Gyllenhall. When the ...

Homer Hickam, whose youthful tales in his memoir Rocket Boys was adapted into the 1999 film October Sky, tells Inverse that he would like to see the agency move away from traditional space rockets ...