"I ate supper after Dad saw the evening shift down the shaft, and I went to sleep to the ringing of a hammer on steel and the dry hiss of an arc welder at the little tipple machine shop during the hoot-owl shift."

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About Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam is an American author and former NASA engineer, best known for his memoir Rocket Boys, which inspired the film October Sky. He is also a Vietnam War veteran and has written multiple memoir and fiction works.

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