Homer Hickam, who is from Coalwood, West Virginia in McDowell County, said on his website that the original story about his dream to become a rocket scientist started out as an article in Air ...

In 1957, Coalwood, West Virginia, was a miner’s town, a dusty coal camp in a narrow valley surrounded by high, heavily forested ridges, the sky a narrow swath between them. I still think of the ...

"The story of Homer Hickam and the Rocket Boys reminds us of the importance of education, and the way dreams can lift us all, ...

Throughout the summer of 1958, explosions rocked the hills and hollows near Coalwood, West Virginia. The first blasts terrified miners and their families. Had the mine blown up? Were the Russians ...