![]() Rarely has a movie in recent years been as blatantly flag-waving as October Sky. Closing titles reveal Homer is now a NASA engineer. He quits work, goes back to school, and enters his rocket in a nationwide competition which he wins. In his spare time he studies trigonometry and realises that his rocket wasn't to blame for the fire. When John is injured in an accident, Homer starts working down the mine. ![]() Banned from mine property, the boys continue their testing at a slack-dump just outside town.Īrrested for setting fire to the forest, the boys give up their experiments. It flies into the mines where Homer's father John works. After his first attempt fails, he constructs a more powerful rocket assisted by his schoolfriends Quentin, Sherman and Roy Lee. The next morning, teenage Homer Hickam decides to build his own rocket. ![]() On the night of 5 October 1957, the residents of the mining town Coalwood, West Virginia, watch Sputnik pass through the night sky. Our synopses give away the plot in full, including surprise twists. ![]()
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