- Critics' Rating:
-
- Release Year:
- 1999
- MPAA Rating:
- PG
- Genre:
- Docudrama
- Director:
-
Joe Johnston
John Hickam is a West Virginia coal miner who loves his job and expects his sons, Jim and Homer, to follow in his footsteps. But Jim gets a football scholarship, and Homer becomes interested in rocket science after seeing Sputnik 1 crossing the sky. John disapproves of his son's new mania, but Homer begins building rockets with the help of friends and a sympathetic teacher . Rocketry, he hopes, will prove his ticket to a better life.
