October Sky (1999)

Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner’s son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father’s wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.

• 1950s
• based on novel
• biography
• coal mine
• mining accident
• parent child relationship
• rocket
• rocketry
• satellite
• small town
• sputnik
• student
• teacher
• west virginia