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Homer Hickam's Dream
Inspired by the Soviet Union’s rocket, Sputnik1, Homer Hickam, a son of a coal miner, gave up his father’s wish: follow his steps and work in the mines, and tried to build rockets of his own, but his plan was initially disdained by his family and classmates. Fortunately, with the encouragement of his teacher, Miss Riley, Homer and his friends persevere to build their homemade missiles and on their way to becoming a successful instructor of our shuttle mission astronauts.

Homer had a dream just like Martin Luther King: create his own rockets. In fact, most of us have our own aerial, ideal and chimerical dream.
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