People / Homer H. Hickam Jr. / Keywords
german
family relationships
father son relationship
1950s
small town
mathematics
brother brother relationship
based on book
friend
high school
teen
based on true story
forest fire
competition
mine
mining
school
teacher
hero
labor union
abuse
fence
nerd
coal mine
reference to frankenstein
satellite
college
generation gap
principal
scholarship
small town life
science
hodgkin's disease
football
strike
science fair
rocket
argument
west virginia
historical
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aerospace film
appalachia
based on history
calculus
coal mining
headlamp
indianapolis indiana
mine disaster
month in title
space race
space satellite
sputnik
friendship
train
hospital
explosion
handcuffs
mother son relationship
title spoken by character
police
teenager