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Roketto boizu. 1 [Japanese] / Homer Hickam Jr. ; [translated by] Keiko Musha.

by Hickam, Homer H., 1943-

Soshisha, c2016.

629.1092 H627ro

Hickam, Homer H., 1943-

Aerospace engineers -- United States -- Biography.

Soshisha bunko ; Hi-2-1

9784794221858 (pbk.)

4794221851 (pbk.)

Rocket boys. Japanese Japanese

Alternate title:

ロケットボーイズ. 上卷 [Japanese]

Rocket boys [Japanese] : a memoir

337 p. ; 16 cm.

Text in Japanese, translated from the English.

"1957年、ソ連の人工衛星スプートニクが、アメリカの上空を横切った。夜空を見上げ、その輝きに魅せられた落ちこぼれ高校生四人組は考えた―このままこの炭鉱町の平凡な高校生のままでいいのか?そうだ、ぼくらもロケットをつくってみよう!度重なる打ち上げ失敗にも、父の反対や町の人々からの嘲笑にもめげず、四人はロケットづくりに没頭する。そして奇人だ."--Cover

"In 1957, the Soviet satellite Sputnik crossed the sky above America. Looking up at the night sky, I thought of a falling high school student four people fascinated by its radiance - Is it okay if I can keep my ordinary high school student in this mining town as it is? Yes, we should try making a rocket! In spite of the father's opposition and ridicule from people in the town, the four people are devoted to making rockets. And with the cooperation of an eccentric but a smart classmate, they are called Rocket Boys one day and they become popular people in the town. But only the father, a man of the mines of the coal mining, will not admit it .... An autobiographical impression that the author who later became an engineer of NASA sports the youth when he grew through rocket making. The movie "Beyond the Distant Sky" Original."--Google translate from the Japanese

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