Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam6/10/2023 ![]() This included spending a year in Japan! During his time there, he learned how the Japanese thought of space philosophically. As an employee located in their Space Lab corporate office, Hickam automated their laboratory’s systems while learning about the lab in general.Īs he started working with the astronauts, Hickam spent the rest of his career training them. ![]() NASA hired Hickam in 1981 not for his engineering degree, but because he knew how to program computers. It was during this time that he began to learn programming for computers. ![]() Once his six years with the army were up, Hickam started working with the military’s Aviation and Missile department as an army civilian. ![]() Although building rockets was a childhood pastime, the excitement of space exploration never left Hickam’s heart.Īfter going to college at Virginia Tech for an industrial engineering degree, Hickam volunteered to travel to Vietnam as an army engineer. Along with his friends, they named themselves the “Big Creek Missile Agency.” Yet to the town, they were known as “The Rocket Boys,” which became the title of one of Hickam’s best sellers. Raised in Coalwood, West Virginia, Homer Hickam Jr. ![]()
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