Rocket Boys

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “nostalgic and entertaining memoir” ( People ) about a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space—the inspiration for the film October Sky “A message of hope in an age of cynicism. . . . Perhaps we all have something to learn from a half-dozen boys who dared to reject all limitations . . . and resolved to send dreams roaring to the sky.”— The San Diego Union-Tribune It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the