October Sky

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="06dd8c02dduajq.jpg"> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">   <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">       <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U><IMG SRC="0660b0b0.png" border=0 width="11" height="11" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>A Top Ten Pick</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="11c6b80f0.jpg" border=0 width="184" height="271" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B>Judy & Lutz Perschon</B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Judy Lutz Perschon"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >back to</FONT>  <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U><B>At The Movies With Lutz</B></U></A></div> <div> October Sky</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="774" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 286 WIDTH="762"><div> I'm a sucker for movies about people who against great odds succeed anyway.  This movie rates in my top ten because it has all the elements, in that it makes me laugh, and cry, and at the end you just feel great.  Based on the real life story of Homer Hickham, {see it can't be fiction with a name like that] it takes us through the life of a boy who rises above the town's and family expectations.  What makes it exceptional is the support by special people in his life, and the efforts of a mining town, to make it all happen.  Events like this probably happen all over, and it's nice when Hollywood gives us a glimpse of some of them.  </div> <div> Homer actually became a NASA engineer.  He began employment with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1981 as an aerospace engineer. During his NASA career, Mr. Hickam worked in spacecraft design and crew training. His specialties at NASA included training astronauts on science payloads, and extravehicular activities (EVA). He also trained astronaut crews for many Spacelab and Space Shuttle missions, including the Hubble Space Telescope deployment mission, the first two Hubble repair missions, Spacelab-J (the first Japanese astronauts), and the Solar Max repair mission. Prior to his retirement in 1998, Mr. Hickam was the Payload Training Manager for the International Space Station Program.  </div> <div> If you have never seen it I recommend you take it out and watch it.  Good for the whole family.  </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="762"><div> <B>Lutz's Rating </B><B>- One of My Top Ten Ever</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 131 WIDTH="762"><div> Storyline From Yahoo:  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="arial" >'In Coalwood, West Virginia, all the boys grow up to be coal miners and Homer Hickam has no reason to think he'll be any different. Too small to earn a football scholarship, Homer has no way out of his predetermined life -- until the soviet satellite Sputnik flies over the October sky and changes everything. It's 1957 and Homer's world just got a lot bigger. Though his father is mine superintendent and has no greater wish than to see his sons follow in his footsteps, Homer embarks on a mission to build and launch his own homemade rockets with the help of his loyal band of friends. Though their frequent mistakes nearly get them shut down, their successes inspire the whole town to believe that miracles can happen even in Coalwood, and there's nothing wrong with shooting for the stars.   </FONT></div> <div> <B>Ratings:    Users B+</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>