What was the original name of the memoir by a former NASA engineer that  won the W.D. Weatherford Award in 1998?
October Sky (novel): October Sky (originally published as Rocket Boys) is the first memoir in a series of three, by Homer Hickam, Jr. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a coal mining town. October Sky (novel):  It won the W.D. Weatherford Award in 1998, the year of its release. Homer Hickam: Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer.
Rocket Boys