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= October Sky (book)
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"October Sky" is a memoir written by Homer H. Hickam Jr., published in 1998. The book recounts Hickam's childhood in the coal mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia, during the 1950s. It tells the inspiring story of how he and his friends became interested in rocketry and space exploration, particularly after the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957.