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Homer Hickam

Auteur de Rocket Boys

27+ oeuvres 5,596 utilisateurs 134 critiques 5 Favoris

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Homer H. Hickam Jr. was born in 1943 in Coalwood, Va. and earned a degree in industrial engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1964. He served in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1972, rising to the rank of captain. Hickam also served as an engineer at the Army Missile Command in Huntsville, afficher plus Ala. and with the Army Corps of Engineers in West Germany. He has been with NASA since 1981. Homer Hickam is a rare combination of practicing scientist and literate storyteller. As a NASA trainer he has taught astronauts to walk on the moon. As an author he has written a poignant, personal memoir about how he became an aerospace engineer. In Rocket Boys (1998) Hickam tells how his fascination with rockets began in the 50s Sputnik space race, developed into a teenage rocket club, and led to Hickam's winning a gold and a silver medal at the National Science Fair in 1960. His inspiring story, told with honesty and humor, had its beginnings as an article in Smithsonian's Air and Space magazine in 1994 and is being adapted as a motion picture. Hickam's other book Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War Off America's East Coast, 1942 (1989) is also praised as a literary achievement. It is a fascinating, fast-paced narrative that draws on his background as a scuba diver and explorer of sunken ships. Hickam has also written several shipwreck articles for major magazines. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Homer Hickam

Rocket Boys (1998) 3,148 exemplaires
The Coalwood Way (2000) 457 exemplaires
Back to the Moon (1999) 273 exemplaires
Sky of Stone: A Memoir (2001) 254 exemplaires
The Keeper's Son (2003) 204 exemplaires
Torpedo Junction (1991) 198 exemplaires
The Dinosaur Hunter: A Novel (2010) 132 exemplaires
The Ambassador's Son (2005) 118 exemplaires
Crater (A Helium-3 Novel) (2012) 118 exemplaires
Red Helmet (2008) 115 exemplaires
We Are Not Afraid (2002) 58 exemplaires
Crescent (A Helium-3 Novel) (2013) 37 exemplaires

Oeuvres associées

Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (2008) — Contributeur — 346 exemplaires
The Best Christian Short Stories (2006) — Contributeur — 71 exemplaires
Hildegard of Bingen: Selections from Her Writings (2005) — Introduction — 63 exemplaires

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Il y a quelque chose de touchant dans ce témoignage, et ce n'est pas la (presque banale) épopée plus technique que scientifique.
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Nikoz | 59 autres critiques | Sep 26, 2017 |

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Œuvres
27
Aussi par
4
Membres
5,596
Popularité
#4,440
Évaluation
3.9
Critiques
134
ISBN
184
Langues
8
Favoris
5

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