October Sky Rocket

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In the movie (True story) October sky, a young teen boy named Homer Hickam watched a show/something on tv and watched huge, big rockets being launched.! So Homer one day was like “Mom, Dad i think im gonna build a rocket.” The main characters where, Homer, John, Elise, Jim Hickam. Miss Riley, Quintin, O’dell, Roy Lee, Miners, Ike Bykovsky, and the rest of the randoms. Homer was a very bright boy who had a goal, his goal was to build a rocket. So he did with , Roy Lee, Quintin, O’dell, and of course himself. These boys went out of their way for these rockets, first rocket was in Homer's own back yard, that blew the fence out. Homer and the three other boys built the rockets in homer's basement. Every new rocket built was always

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