1 00:00:06,571 --> 00:00:09,157 While most of President Eisenhower's advisors-- 2 00:00:15,580 --> 00:00:18,417 If you have just tuned in to this special bulletin... 3 00:00:18,417 --> 00:00:21,002 Washington has confirmed that yesterday... 4 00:00:21,086 --> 00:00:23,922 on the fourth of October, 1957... 5 00:00:24,005 --> 00:00:26,341 the Soviet Union successfully launched... 6 00:00:26,341 --> 00:00:28,677 history's first man-made satellite... 7 00:00:28,677 --> 00:00:30,846 into space orbit around the Earth. 8 00:01:12,554 --> 00:01:15,056 The satellite which the Russians have dubbed Sputnik... 9 00:01:15,140 --> 00:01:17,476 is being hailed as a milestone in history. 10 00:01:17,559 --> 00:01:20,437 No one in our nation's capital could deny that the satellite... 11 00:01:20,437 --> 00:01:23,398 has ushered in a grim new chapter in the Cold War. 12 00:01:23,398 --> 00:01:25,817 And indeed, a wave of national anxiety... 13 00:01:25,901 --> 00:01:27,819 already seems to be sweeping the country. 14 00:01:27,903 --> 00:01:30,989 Still maintaining its speed of 18,000 miles an hour... 15 00:01:31,073 --> 00:01:34,493 completing an orbit of the Earth every 96 minutes. 16 00:01:43,085 --> 00:01:45,003 Dr. Wernher von Braun... 17 00:01:45,087 --> 00:01:47,756 Chief Engineer of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency... 18 00:01:47,756 --> 00:01:49,758 expressed the hope that the United States... 19 00:01:49,841 --> 00:01:52,177 would soon be following the Russians into space... 20 00:01:52,260 --> 00:01:54,429 with our own artificial satellite. 21 00:01:54,513 --> 00:01:56,681 Dr. von Braun confirmed that there has still been... 22 00:01:56,765 --> 00:01:59,267 no actual sighting of the Soviet satellite... 23 00:01:59,351 --> 00:02:02,521 but the U.S. expects to be tracking it very soon. 24 00:02:02,604 --> 00:02:05,440 We are told that Sputnik will be visible to the naked eye... 25 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,944 about an hour after sunset and an hour before dawn... 26 00:02:08,944 --> 00:02:12,531 as it traverses the October sky over the United States. 27 00:02:12,614 --> 00:02:15,784 What the beeping signal means we still don't know. 28 00:02:15,867 --> 00:02:17,786 It may be nothing more-- 29 00:02:39,224 --> 00:02:40,642 Let's go, Roy Lee. 30 00:02:41,601 --> 00:02:43,270 It's almost 9:00. 31 00:02:43,311 --> 00:02:45,313 Sure are in a hurry to get yourself killed. 32 00:02:45,397 --> 00:02:49,234 No kiddin'. There are easier ways to commit suicide, Homer. 33 00:02:49,276 --> 00:02:51,987 Will you just step on it, Roy Lee? 34 00:02:52,028 --> 00:02:54,156 I am steppin' on it. 35 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:09,671 Okay, Maguire, Longstreet, Hickam. Let's see what you got. 36 00:03:12,007 --> 00:03:16,094 Hey, take it easy on my kid brother. Make him look good, all right? 37 00:03:16,178 --> 00:03:17,679 Let's go! Hut! 38 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,767 Now. Set. Hut two! 39 00:03:24,853 --> 00:03:26,938 I told you to take it easy on him. 40 00:03:27,022 --> 00:03:28,940 I did take it easy on him. 41 00:03:29,024 --> 00:03:31,943 I'm gonna run right over you, you son of a bitch. 42 00:03:33,111 --> 00:03:35,781 - You hear me? - Hut one! Hut two! 43 00:03:41,703 --> 00:03:44,706 Homer, you sure got guts... 44 00:03:44,790 --> 00:03:47,042 but you gotta know when to quit. 45 00:03:47,042 --> 00:03:49,044 Okay, Miller, you're up! 46 00:04:00,555 --> 00:04:03,558 Why should the damn jocks be the only ones gettin' scholarships? 47 00:04:03,642 --> 00:04:06,311 They're also the only ones that get the girls. 48 00:04:06,394 --> 00:04:07,813 This burns my ass. 49 00:04:16,238 --> 00:04:18,323 What do you boys think about this? 50 00:04:18,407 --> 00:04:20,325 Isn't that something? 51 00:04:20,409 --> 00:04:24,162 Let 'em have outer space. We got rock 'n' roll. 52 00:04:24,246 --> 00:04:26,498 I'm with you. We got enough to worry about down here. 53 00:04:27,749 --> 00:04:31,420 Homer, your dad say anything about any layoffs? 54 00:04:31,503 --> 00:04:34,256 - Have they pulled any more pillars? - He didn't say. 55 00:04:34,339 --> 00:04:37,175 Does he talk at all? 56 00:04:39,010 --> 00:04:40,429 Yeah, he talks. 57 00:04:40,512 --> 00:04:45,350 Damn it, Jake! Didn't I tell you to put some men to work on those roof bolts? 58 00:04:45,434 --> 00:04:48,437 - Was I talkin' to the wall? - I'm sorry. We was just tryin' to get-- 59 00:04:48,478 --> 00:04:52,441 Make sure the hoot owl shift sets those timbers by the vent! 60 00:04:57,946 --> 00:05:03,410 Two more days on that block, we're gonna be down to the bone. I guess that's-- 61 00:05:07,038 --> 00:05:09,958 Jensen! Get out of there! 62 00:05:10,041 --> 00:05:11,960 Jensen, look out! 63 00:05:17,549 --> 00:05:20,385 Come on, Jensen. 64 00:05:21,636 --> 00:05:24,264 Come on back. 65 00:05:24,306 --> 00:05:25,891 What happened? 66 00:05:25,974 --> 00:05:28,810 Whole damn mountain 'bout fell on your head. 67 00:05:28,852 --> 00:05:31,396 And John here, he saved your life. 68 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,066 That's my dad. 69 00:05:34,149 --> 00:05:37,736 I want you out of this mine. Don't come back, you stupid son of a bitch. 70 00:05:37,819 --> 00:05:40,072 Didn't I tell you to watch the roof? 71 00:05:40,155 --> 00:05:44,659 Now we all could've been killed 'cause you didn't have the sense to look up! 72 00:05:44,743 --> 00:05:46,495 That's my dad. 73 00:05:46,578 --> 00:05:47,996 Homer. 74 00:05:50,248 --> 00:05:51,666 How'd it go? 75 00:05:55,337 --> 00:05:58,340 Well, I told you. You spend the summer shovelin' coal... 76 00:05:58,423 --> 00:06:00,842 and you'll be playin' linebacker next fall. 77 00:06:00,926 --> 00:06:04,012 What's the matter, Homer? Not cut out for mining coal? 78 00:06:04,096 --> 00:06:05,514 Me neither. 79 00:06:07,099 --> 00:06:10,268 Let's get that mess cleaned up! 80 00:06:10,352 --> 00:06:12,437 Let's get some cribbin' on that roof! 81 00:06:12,521 --> 00:06:15,440 Buck up, Homer. You're a Coalwood boy. 82 00:06:15,524 --> 00:06:18,360 When you get down in the mine, get that coal shovel in your hand... 83 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,862 feel just as natural to you as a tick on a dog. 84 00:06:22,864 --> 00:06:24,783 Get that slate off the loader! 85 00:06:24,866 --> 00:06:28,120 It's the radio signal transmitted by the Soviet Sputnik. 86 00:06:28,203 --> 00:06:32,624 Listen for the sound which forevermore separates the old from the new. 87 00:06:42,384 --> 00:06:44,886 That's it? That's the Sputnik? 88 00:06:44,970 --> 00:06:47,722 - That's Sputnik. - Well, big deal. 89 00:06:47,806 --> 00:06:50,976 Big deal? What you fail to grasp... 90 00:06:51,059 --> 00:06:53,228 is that the sound you're hearin' is bein' transmitted by an object... 91 00:06:53,311 --> 00:06:55,814 that is travelin' at 18,000 miles per hour... 92 00:06:55,897 --> 00:06:59,818 559 miles high, and orbitin' the Earth-- 93 00:06:59,901 --> 00:07:02,487 - Shut up! - Boys, not in my class! 94 00:07:03,739 --> 00:07:05,907 Thank you, Quentin. 95 00:07:05,991 --> 00:07:08,660 Now Quentin's right, y'all. 96 00:07:08,744 --> 00:07:11,830 Sputnik is a milestone in history. 97 00:07:11,913 --> 00:07:14,166 Things'll never be the same again. 98 00:07:15,667 --> 00:07:18,503 - What do you think about that, Homer? - Well, yes, ma'am. 99 00:07:18,587 --> 00:07:20,505 Cat got your tongue? 100 00:07:20,589 --> 00:07:22,924 We were talkin' about bein' in orbit... 101 00:07:22,924 --> 00:07:25,343 hundreds of miles away from the Earth. 102 00:07:25,427 --> 00:07:28,013 You know anything about that? 103 00:07:28,096 --> 00:07:30,348 No, ma'am. 104 00:07:30,432 --> 00:07:32,934 I got my eye on you, boy. 105 00:07:33,018 --> 00:07:36,021 Now who can tell me why Sputnik is so important? 106 00:07:36,104 --> 00:07:38,607 We ought to just shoot the damn thing down. 107 00:07:38,690 --> 00:07:40,609 It's got one of them little spy cameras in it. 108 00:07:40,692 --> 00:07:43,445 It takes pictures of every one of our missile bases. 109 00:07:43,528 --> 00:07:47,783 This country'd better get on the ball before it's too late. 110 00:07:47,866 --> 00:07:51,119 All I know is this Sputnik had better show up soon. 111 00:07:51,203 --> 00:07:53,205 I'm gettin' a crick in my neck. 112 00:07:53,288 --> 00:07:55,957 All right. What you need to do is take her to the movies. 113 00:07:56,041 --> 00:07:59,044 Somethin' scary, like "Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman." 114 00:07:59,127 --> 00:08:03,298 Then you take your arm and put it up round the back of her chair, like so. 115 00:08:03,381 --> 00:08:07,552 When it gets scary, and she ain't payin' attention to nothin' but the movie... 116 00:08:07,636 --> 00:08:11,556 you sort of let your arm sort of slide on down her shoulder... 117 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:15,644 real nice and slow and easy until-- 118 00:08:19,231 --> 00:08:22,150 - I see it! Right there! - Where? Where? 119 00:08:23,318 --> 00:08:25,320 You seein' things, Carl? 120 00:08:30,492 --> 00:08:33,078 - I see it. - Where do you see it? 121 00:08:33,161 --> 00:08:35,414 I see it. It's right there. 122 00:08:45,173 --> 00:08:46,675 Wow. 123 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,770 Sons of bitches gonna be droppin' bombs on us from up there. 124 00:08:58,854 --> 00:09:00,772 Don't know why they'd drop a bomb on this place. 125 00:09:00,897 --> 00:09:03,275 Be a heck of a waste of a bomb. 126 00:09:07,446 --> 00:09:11,450 The first game against Welch, that's the one that's gonna draw the scouts. 127 00:09:11,533 --> 00:09:14,369 Yeah. Welch knows it too. They're gonna be coming after us. 128 00:09:14,453 --> 00:09:18,165 Be careful, Jim. Last year, those two boys from Welch got their arms broken. 129 00:09:18,206 --> 00:09:22,461 - Well, they started it. - It don't matter much who started it. 130 00:09:22,544 --> 00:09:24,463 I don't call that football. 131 00:09:24,546 --> 00:09:26,673 You don't worry about Jim. 132 00:09:26,798 --> 00:09:29,551 Ain't nobody on the Welch team that can catch him. 133 00:09:29,551 --> 00:09:32,345 I wish the scouts could've seen that first game with Bluefield. 134 00:09:32,471 --> 00:09:34,389 I'm gonna build a rocket. 135 00:09:36,892 --> 00:09:39,144 Like Sputnik. 136 00:09:39,227 --> 00:09:42,397 Well, I'm not sayin' it's gonna go up in space or anything... 137 00:09:42,481 --> 00:09:44,399 but I'm gonna do it. 138 00:09:46,485 --> 00:09:48,653 I'm gonna build a rocket. 139 00:09:48,737 --> 00:09:51,907 Just don't blow yourself up. 140 00:09:54,826 --> 00:09:56,745 More eggs, anybody? 141 00:09:56,828 --> 00:09:59,873 - Nice rocket, Homer. - How high do you think it will fly? 142 00:09:59,915 --> 00:10:03,335 Well, I got it packed with the powder from 30 sky rockets. 143 00:10:03,460 --> 00:10:05,337 Three, four miles. 144 00:10:05,420 --> 00:10:07,172 You ready? 145 00:10:07,214 --> 00:10:08,673 Yeah. 146 00:10:10,092 --> 00:10:12,094 Ten. Nine. 147 00:10:12,177 --> 00:10:14,596 - Eight. Seven. Six. - Should we get behind somethin'? 148 00:10:20,143 --> 00:10:21,520 What happened? 149 00:10:21,645 --> 00:10:23,188 My rocket blew up. 150 00:10:23,271 --> 00:10:25,440 - Are you okay? - I guess. 151 00:10:25,524 --> 00:10:30,153 My heart's poundin'. I thought the mine blew up. Oh, Homer. 152 00:10:32,864 --> 00:10:37,202 I waited six months for the company carpenter to put up that fence. 153 00:10:37,285 --> 00:10:39,538 Didn't I tell you not to blow yourself up? 154 00:10:39,621 --> 00:10:42,124 Yes, ma'am. 155 00:10:42,207 --> 00:10:43,792 Then let's not. 156 00:10:46,461 --> 00:10:49,798 - Elsie. - It's all right, Ms. Fields! 157 00:10:49,881 --> 00:10:52,134 It's all right. 158 00:10:52,217 --> 00:10:55,011 Dear Dr. von Braun. 159 00:10:55,053 --> 00:10:56,972 - Six. Five. Four. Three-- - My name is Homer Hickam. 160 00:10:57,097 --> 00:11:00,559 I'm 17 and I live in a small mining town in West Virginia. 161 00:11:00,684 --> 00:11:02,602 Ignition. 162 00:11:02,644 --> 00:11:05,230 Liftoff. Liftoff. 163 00:11:05,313 --> 00:11:07,983 I'm writing to offer my condolences to you and your team... 164 00:11:08,066 --> 00:11:11,403 on your recent attempt to launch the Vanguard rocket. 165 00:11:13,196 --> 00:11:17,576 I also had a disastrous occurrence during the launch of my small rocket. 166 00:11:21,329 --> 00:11:23,749 Since here in Coalwood everyone's much more interested... 167 00:11:23,832 --> 00:11:26,251 in what's down below the earth than what's above it... 168 00:11:26,334 --> 00:11:30,172 there isn't a whole lot of material to be found on the subject of rocketry. 169 00:11:30,255 --> 00:11:33,592 So I've been kind of stumbling around in the dark. 170 00:11:50,942 --> 00:11:52,861 You can't be seen with him, Homer. 171 00:11:52,944 --> 00:11:55,947 He's a weirdo. You go ahead... 172 00:11:56,031 --> 00:11:58,283 but you can kiss your social life good-bye. 173 00:12:02,454 --> 00:12:04,372 - Hi, Homer. - Hi. 174 00:12:16,635 --> 00:12:19,387 I don't let anybody copy my homework. 175 00:12:19,471 --> 00:12:22,057 I don't wanna copy your homework. 176 00:12:24,893 --> 00:12:26,895 Do you know anything about rockets? 177 00:12:26,978 --> 00:12:28,563 Of course I do. 178 00:12:28,647 --> 00:12:31,400 You wanna come with me over to the library? 179 00:12:31,483 --> 00:12:33,485 No. 180 00:12:48,333 --> 00:12:50,335 What do you wanna know about rockets? 181 00:12:51,420 --> 00:12:53,004 Everything. 182 00:12:55,257 --> 00:13:00,595 Well, rocketry was actually invented by the Chinese as early as 1,000 A.D. 183 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:02,848 And, supposedly, they were quite sophisticated. 184 00:13:08,353 --> 00:13:11,022 Potassium chlorate and sulphur. 185 00:13:12,607 --> 00:13:15,444 Well, what'd you use? 186 00:13:15,444 --> 00:13:17,946 Uh, somethin' like that. 187 00:13:18,029 --> 00:13:20,198 Hey, Quentin, this is great. 188 00:13:20,282 --> 00:13:24,119 This is exactly-- We have everything we need in here. 189 00:13:24,202 --> 00:13:26,121 Roy Lee, drive me to my house. 190 00:13:26,204 --> 00:13:29,291 - We can use my basement. - At least nobody'll see us down there. 191 00:13:29,291 --> 00:13:32,878 - Go, go, go. - Come on. 192 00:13:32,961 --> 00:13:34,880 You got a loose choke cable. 193 00:13:35,797 --> 00:13:37,382 You hear that? 194 00:13:37,466 --> 00:13:40,218 The butterfly valve isn't closin' all the way. 195 00:13:44,055 --> 00:13:47,142 Uh, last year I built an internal combustion engine... 196 00:13:47,142 --> 00:13:49,311 and entered it in the science fair. 197 00:13:49,394 --> 00:13:52,147 Yeah, well, you wouldn't happen to have it on you, would you? 198 00:14:17,172 --> 00:14:19,091 - Ow! - I'm sorry. 199 00:14:23,678 --> 00:14:25,680 You missed a spot. 200 00:14:33,355 --> 00:14:35,524 This thing's startin' to look like a rocket. 201 00:14:35,524 --> 00:14:39,861 Listen to this. "Weld the washer to the base of the rocket body... 202 00:14:39,945 --> 00:14:43,782 creating a combustion chamber and nozzle." 203 00:14:43,865 --> 00:14:46,868 - We don't know how to weld. - Weld. 204 00:14:46,952 --> 00:14:49,871 Your brother's in metal shop. Maybe he could, uh-- 205 00:14:52,791 --> 00:14:55,794 - Do we really need this nozzle thing? - For cryin' out loud. 206 00:14:55,877 --> 00:14:59,381 The nozzle's the most important part. It directs the flow of the hot gases! 207 00:14:59,464 --> 00:15:00,882 Cool it, Quentin. 208 00:15:00,966 --> 00:15:03,468 Man, talkin' about your hot gases. 209 00:15:10,308 --> 00:15:14,396 I don't think your father would like you sneaking up in the middle of the night. 210 00:15:14,396 --> 00:15:18,483 And I know that he wouldn't like me welding for you on company time. 211 00:15:18,567 --> 00:15:20,902 Well, what if I paid the company for your time? 212 00:15:20,986 --> 00:15:23,822 Homer, I can't. 213 00:15:23,905 --> 00:15:26,992 I would lose my job. 214 00:15:27,075 --> 00:15:28,994 I'm sorry. 215 00:15:29,911 --> 00:15:33,331 Did you see Sputnik go over the other night? 216 00:15:35,167 --> 00:15:37,085 'Cause it was beautiful. 217 00:15:38,503 --> 00:15:41,757 I stood there and watched it streak across the sky. 218 00:15:41,757 --> 00:15:47,596 And anywhere in the world, someone could look up and see exactly what I saw. 219 00:15:47,679 --> 00:15:51,933 For once, it felt like Coalwood was part of the outside world. 220 00:15:52,017 --> 00:15:55,937 Homer, believe me, there are much worse places than Coalwood in this world. 221 00:15:57,272 --> 00:16:00,358 Besides, this is just a flying piece of steel. 222 00:16:02,277 --> 00:16:05,614 A rocket took it up there, Mr. Bykovsky. 223 00:16:05,697 --> 00:16:07,949 I don't know. I-- 224 00:16:08,033 --> 00:16:10,535 When I was workin' on this rocket, I felt like-- 225 00:16:10,619 --> 00:16:15,040 I felt like I was, like I was Wernher von Braun. 226 00:16:16,124 --> 00:16:18,126 Let me see. 227 00:16:20,962 --> 00:16:22,881 Homer... 228 00:16:24,633 --> 00:16:26,551 it will be our secret. 229 00:16:28,386 --> 00:16:31,139 Mr. Bykovsky did a dang good job on this. 230 00:16:31,223 --> 00:16:33,809 Yeah, well, he used a washer for the weld. 231 00:16:33,892 --> 00:16:36,645 - It looks like it did in the picture. - Prodigious. 232 00:16:36,728 --> 00:16:38,647 When do we go? 233 00:16:38,730 --> 00:16:40,649 - Give me that. - Saturday-- 234 00:16:40,732 --> 00:16:42,901 What is this, a weapon of some kind? 235 00:16:43,068 --> 00:16:45,404 No, sir. It's a rocket. 236 00:16:45,404 --> 00:16:48,907 I don't allow dangerous devices on school grounds. 237 00:16:48,990 --> 00:16:53,078 - I asked Homer to bring that to school. - To show it in class. 238 00:16:53,161 --> 00:16:56,581 You know, the boys are thinkin' about enterin' that county science fair. 239 00:16:57,833 --> 00:16:59,584 Be careful, gentlemen. 240 00:16:59,584 --> 00:17:02,587 - I'm gonna have my eye on you. - Thank you, Mr. Turner. 241 00:17:03,588 --> 00:17:06,758 That science fair is rigged. All the judges are from Welch... 242 00:17:06,842 --> 00:17:09,344 so only the kids from Welch ever win. 243 00:17:09,428 --> 00:17:12,180 And besides, science fairs are for geeks. 244 00:17:12,264 --> 00:17:14,182 No offense, Quentin. 245 00:17:14,266 --> 00:17:16,184 Well, it's too bad you feel that way. 246 00:17:16,268 --> 00:17:19,104 The winners go on to the National Science Fair in Indianapolis... 247 00:17:19,104 --> 00:17:23,692 and colleges from all over the country hand out scholarships. 248 00:17:23,775 --> 00:17:26,778 It's great. Have a good lunch, boys. 249 00:17:28,864 --> 00:17:31,783 College scholarships for winning a science fair? 250 00:17:31,783 --> 00:17:33,785 Well, maybe it's not for you. 251 00:17:33,785 --> 00:17:36,872 - Well, what do you mean? - Homer, you got a great mind. 252 00:17:36,955 --> 00:17:39,040 But science requires math... 253 00:17:39,124 --> 00:17:41,710 which has never been one of your favorite subjects. 254 00:17:42,961 --> 00:17:46,214 Can't just dream your way out of Coalwood, Homer. 255 00:17:52,304 --> 00:17:55,432 AUK I. Stroke of genius, Homer. 256 00:17:55,557 --> 00:17:57,642 It won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse. 257 00:17:57,726 --> 00:17:59,895 What the hell is an auk? 258 00:17:59,978 --> 00:18:02,064 It's a bird that don't fly. 259 00:18:02,147 --> 00:18:04,399 What, kind of like a parakeet? 260 00:18:04,483 --> 00:18:06,234 Ready? 261 00:18:06,318 --> 00:18:10,906 Well, Youngstown's always been fair, Otis, but... 262 00:18:10,989 --> 00:18:13,742 you're askin' me to lay off damn near half the town. 263 00:18:14,743 --> 00:18:17,162 The mine is just not producin'... 264 00:18:17,204 --> 00:18:19,289 the way it was ten years ago, John. 265 00:18:19,331 --> 00:18:22,292 We're payin' the same labor for half the tonnage. 266 00:18:22,334 --> 00:18:25,587 What if we were to open up a new shaft? 267 00:18:25,670 --> 00:18:28,006 That coal is down there, Otis. 268 00:18:28,090 --> 00:18:30,759 You just let me go after it. 269 00:18:30,842 --> 00:18:34,137 The Coalwood mine has given out, Mr. Hickam. 270 00:18:38,850 --> 00:18:40,352 Move! 271 00:18:41,686 --> 00:18:44,773 - Ten-- - Nine. Eight. 272 00:18:44,856 --> 00:18:48,360 Seven. Six. Five. 273 00:18:48,485 --> 00:18:51,279 Four. Three. Two-- 274 00:18:54,032 --> 00:18:58,120 Holy shit, it's headed for the mine! 275 00:19:01,706 --> 00:19:03,792 I told you we didn't know what we were doin'! 276 00:19:03,875 --> 00:19:05,293 Oh, no. 277 00:19:17,139 --> 00:19:19,558 God in heaven, I thought it was a guided missile! 278 00:19:19,641 --> 00:19:22,644 I thought the damn Russians were attackin' us. 279 00:19:23,729 --> 00:19:25,772 The boy's in trouble now. 280 00:19:29,943 --> 00:19:33,447 So this is what you been up to in the basement, huh? 281 00:19:33,572 --> 00:19:36,575 - Yes, sir. - Damn, Homer. 282 00:19:36,658 --> 00:19:39,202 You could've killed somebody with this idiot thing. 283 00:19:39,244 --> 00:19:40,829 I know. I'm sorry. 284 00:19:40,912 --> 00:19:43,623 Homer here wants to be a rocket scientist. Is that it, John? 285 00:19:43,665 --> 00:19:46,084 He has no idea what he wants to be. 286 00:19:47,127 --> 00:19:50,172 But I know what he is. He's a menace... 287 00:19:50,255 --> 00:19:52,174 and he's a damn thief. 288 00:19:52,215 --> 00:19:55,218 - Dad-- - And so is whoever helped you. 289 00:19:55,260 --> 00:19:57,554 Ike Bykovsky did this, didn't he? 290 00:19:57,596 --> 00:20:00,056 Don't you ever let me catch you... 291 00:20:00,098 --> 00:20:03,602 with these fool things on company property again, you understand me? 292 00:20:04,978 --> 00:20:07,939 - Yes, sir. - Then go home. 293 00:20:23,955 --> 00:20:26,875 Yeah? What's your tunnel number? 294 00:20:26,958 --> 00:20:31,546 He called me a thief, Ma, in front of everybody. 295 00:20:31,630 --> 00:20:35,217 - How could he do that? - He was dead wrong callin' you that. 296 00:20:35,300 --> 00:20:37,302 He'd never have done that to Jim. 297 00:20:37,302 --> 00:20:40,430 They could catch Jim stickin' up the company store... 298 00:20:40,555 --> 00:20:43,392 and Dad would probably laugh and say, "That's my boy." 299 00:20:43,433 --> 00:20:45,811 I know he's hard to understand sometimes, Homer... 300 00:20:45,936 --> 00:20:47,813 but you have to know he loves you. 301 00:20:47,896 --> 00:20:52,442 He loves the mine, more than Jim even. 302 00:20:52,484 --> 00:20:55,487 - More than you. - You hush up. 303 00:20:56,988 --> 00:20:58,907 What's it given him back? 304 00:20:58,949 --> 00:21:02,077 Nothin' but a spot on his lung the size of a damn quarter. 305 00:21:05,831 --> 00:21:08,083 You don't know what the mine gives me. 306 00:21:09,167 --> 00:21:11,753 You don't know 'cause you're still a boy. 307 00:21:12,838 --> 00:21:15,882 But, by golly, you're gonna find out soon enough. 308 00:21:26,977 --> 00:21:29,187 I'm never goin' down there. 309 00:21:32,190 --> 00:21:34,651 You better have a talk with your son, Elsie... 310 00:21:35,527 --> 00:21:37,529 'cause he's out of control. 311 00:21:53,295 --> 00:21:55,213 Where's my rocket stuff? 312 00:21:55,297 --> 00:21:57,382 Right where they belong. 313 00:22:17,235 --> 00:22:21,073 Quentin, you know, that rocket went up at least 100 feet. 314 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:23,825 More like 200. 315 00:22:28,246 --> 00:22:32,793 - Will you cut it out, Roy Lee? - Die, you son of a bitch. 316 00:22:32,918 --> 00:22:35,420 - Come on. My turn now. - Hey, man. What's with you? 317 00:22:35,504 --> 00:22:37,422 We should be tryin' to get in that science fair... 318 00:22:37,506 --> 00:22:39,758 instead of sittin' around here like a bunch of hillbillies. 319 00:22:39,841 --> 00:22:43,512 I got some really bad news for you, Homer. We are a bunch of hillbillies. 320 00:22:43,595 --> 00:22:47,682 Besides, um, didn't your dad say no more rockets? 321 00:22:47,766 --> 00:22:50,602 He said no more rockets on company property. 322 00:22:50,685 --> 00:22:53,605 Do you realize how far we'd have to go to get off company property? 323 00:22:53,605 --> 00:22:57,609 - Yeah. We have to go to Snakeroot. - Snakeroot? That's eight miles. 324 00:22:57,609 --> 00:23:00,779 It's not that far. We could walk if we have to. 325 00:23:00,862 --> 00:23:04,199 Oh, walk. That's a fantastic idea. 326 00:23:04,282 --> 00:23:07,035 - Let's go! Come on! - Wake the hell up, will ya, Homer? 327 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,371 I got about as much chance of winnin' that science fair... 328 00:23:09,454 --> 00:23:12,124 as you do winnin' a football scholarship. 329 00:23:12,207 --> 00:23:16,211 I know I'm gonna be a miner. I've known my entire life. 330 00:23:16,294 --> 00:23:18,213 What the hell's so bad about minin' coal? 331 00:23:18,296 --> 00:23:20,215 Nothin', Roy Lee. Coal minin's great. 332 00:23:20,298 --> 00:23:24,636 That's why your stepdaddy's the biggest drunk in West Virginia. 333 00:23:24,636 --> 00:23:28,974 I mean, come on, guys! You know the mine'll kill ya. 334 00:23:28,974 --> 00:23:31,810 Did you ever hear the story about how O'Dell's dad died? 335 00:23:31,893 --> 00:23:34,646 - Homer, will you forget it? - Shut up, Homer. 336 00:23:34,730 --> 00:23:39,234 A piece of slate caught him right in the neck and cut his head clear off. 337 00:23:39,317 --> 00:23:41,486 Bitch! Come on! 338 00:23:41,570 --> 00:23:42,988 O'Dell! 339 00:23:45,490 --> 00:23:47,075 Get off of me! 340 00:23:47,159 --> 00:23:50,078 Hey, fellas, we're lookin' for U.S. 52. 341 00:23:55,167 --> 00:23:57,335 Fellas? 342 00:23:57,419 --> 00:24:01,173 Just stay left at the fork. It's about another five miles straight ahead. 343 00:24:01,256 --> 00:24:03,175 Thanks. 344 00:24:10,515 --> 00:24:13,518 You fellas see the way she was lookin' at me? 345 00:24:15,604 --> 00:24:19,024 Man, you all wanna be coal miners... 346 00:24:19,024 --> 00:24:21,526 you all go ahead and be coal miners. 347 00:24:33,205 --> 00:24:35,707 There. There. 348 00:24:49,805 --> 00:24:51,723 God's honest truth, Homer... 349 00:24:51,807 --> 00:24:53,975 what are the chances... 350 00:24:54,059 --> 00:24:56,228 of a bunch of kids from Coalwood... 351 00:24:56,311 --> 00:24:59,147 actually winnin' the National Science Fair? 352 00:24:59,231 --> 00:25:01,483 A million to one, O'Dell. 353 00:25:02,317 --> 00:25:04,319 That good? 354 00:25:04,403 --> 00:25:07,906 Well, why didn't you say so? Come on. Give me that. 355 00:25:09,825 --> 00:25:11,243 Quentin. 356 00:25:17,833 --> 00:25:19,251 What? 357 00:25:41,523 --> 00:25:44,359 We hiked eight miles for this? 358 00:25:44,443 --> 00:25:47,195 Oh, it's great. What should we call it? 359 00:25:47,279 --> 00:25:49,197 How 'bout a slack dump? 360 00:25:49,281 --> 00:25:52,117 What about "No Man's Land"? 361 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:53,618 Cape Coalwood. 362 00:25:54,786 --> 00:25:57,205 I mean, it's perfect. 363 00:25:57,289 --> 00:25:59,624 We could build a blockhouse over there... 364 00:25:59,708 --> 00:26:01,626 and a launchpad. 365 00:26:02,794 --> 00:26:05,130 And we could even build a test stand! 366 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:22,314 Dear Dr. von Braun. Our launch site, which we've named Cape Coalwood... 367 00:26:22,397 --> 00:26:24,566 is nearing completion. 368 00:26:26,234 --> 00:26:29,071 Thanks to the generosity of local businesses. 369 00:26:38,580 --> 00:26:40,999 Inspired by our efforts... 370 00:26:41,083 --> 00:26:45,003 everyone is anxious to help by donating materials. 371 00:26:46,254 --> 00:26:48,673 We've been fortunate to have the support of our classmates. 372 00:26:48,757 --> 00:26:51,009 And the whole community here in Coalwood is behind us. 373 00:26:52,594 --> 00:26:55,180 Hey, rocket boy. Mars is that way. 374 00:26:55,180 --> 00:26:58,016 But no one has been more encouraging to our efforts than my father. 375 00:26:58,100 --> 00:27:03,021 No, the company doesn't have any cement left over for launchpads. 376 00:27:03,105 --> 00:27:07,442 - I just thought I'd ask. - Besides, I told you no more rockets. 377 00:27:07,526 --> 00:27:10,695 You said no more rockets on company property. 378 00:27:10,779 --> 00:27:12,948 And Olga doesn't own Snakeroot. 379 00:27:13,782 --> 00:27:15,867 So, you walk eight miles? 380 00:27:15,951 --> 00:27:17,369 Yes, sir. 381 00:27:20,539 --> 00:27:23,458 Well, tell me something, Homer. 382 00:27:23,542 --> 00:27:26,878 Uh, what exactly is this Wernher von Braun... 383 00:27:26,878 --> 00:27:29,548 and the rest of those Germans accomplishin' anyway? 384 00:27:29,631 --> 00:27:33,135 'Cause if you ask me, it's nothin' but a stunt. 385 00:27:33,218 --> 00:27:36,972 You think catchin' up to the Russians in space is a stunt? 386 00:27:37,055 --> 00:27:40,142 When the novelty wears off, they're all gonna be sent packin'. 387 00:27:40,225 --> 00:27:42,978 Maybe then they'll have to find themselves a real job. 388 00:27:43,061 --> 00:27:45,063 Like minin' coal? 389 00:27:46,648 --> 00:27:48,150 You listen here. 390 00:27:49,067 --> 00:27:51,486 The coal we mine makes steel, Homer. 391 00:27:51,570 --> 00:27:54,990 And if steel fails, this country fails. 392 00:27:55,073 --> 00:27:58,076 If you had half a damn brain in your head, you'd know that. 393 00:28:01,913 --> 00:28:04,750 Well, who's down there now? 394 00:28:04,750 --> 00:28:07,419 Hold on just a second. Hey, listen here. 395 00:28:07,502 --> 00:28:10,589 I had an engineer estimate a new walkway. 396 00:28:10,672 --> 00:28:12,591 They had some cement left over... 397 00:28:12,674 --> 00:28:15,761 so it got caught in the rain, it's probably ruined. 398 00:28:15,761 --> 00:28:18,513 But if you wanna haul it out, it's all yours. 399 00:28:18,597 --> 00:28:20,515 Thanks, Dad. 400 00:28:21,850 --> 00:28:23,769 I'll be down in a minute. 401 00:28:28,356 --> 00:28:32,611 And Miss Riley wanted to make sure you document your results. 402 00:28:32,694 --> 00:28:35,030 You will be graded when she returns. 403 00:28:35,113 --> 00:28:37,199 You have one hour. 404 00:28:37,282 --> 00:28:40,285 Potassium chloride has a potassium atom. 405 00:28:40,285 --> 00:28:44,289 If we mix it with sugar and add heat... 406 00:28:44,289 --> 00:28:47,042 we'll get three parts oxygen, two parts carbon dioxide... 407 00:28:47,125 --> 00:28:49,377 along with some other by-products. 408 00:28:49,461 --> 00:28:51,797 In other words, lots of good expanding gases. 409 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,549 It should make an excellent propellant. 410 00:28:54,633 --> 00:28:56,802 It smells like candy. 411 00:28:59,471 --> 00:29:00,806 Better get started. 412 00:29:02,557 --> 00:29:05,060 All right, quick. Get rid of it. 413 00:29:34,089 --> 00:29:37,676 Mr. Bolden, have you seen Mr. Bykovsky around? 414 00:29:37,759 --> 00:29:40,429 He's not in the shop anymore. 415 00:29:41,513 --> 00:29:43,765 Your dad sent him down to the mine. 416 00:29:48,603 --> 00:29:51,857 He's takin' it out on you because you helped me. 417 00:29:51,940 --> 00:29:55,527 That's enough of that. Your father is a fair man. 418 00:29:55,610 --> 00:29:58,447 If he's strict, it's because he has to be. 419 00:29:58,530 --> 00:30:01,867 Besides, he did me a big favor, transferring me from the machine shop. 420 00:30:01,867 --> 00:30:03,869 What are you talkin' about? 421 00:30:03,869 --> 00:30:06,538 I can make twice as much money down there working the high coal. 422 00:30:07,539 --> 00:30:09,207 You can? 423 00:30:09,207 --> 00:30:12,961 I've got relatives in Europe who've had hard time recovering from the war. 424 00:30:13,044 --> 00:30:15,797 They depend on me for whatever I can provide. 425 00:30:15,881 --> 00:30:18,049 So I can use the extra money. 426 00:30:18,049 --> 00:30:21,052 I'm just sorry I won't be able to weld any more rockets for you. 427 00:30:24,389 --> 00:30:25,891 That's for good luck. 428 00:30:29,811 --> 00:30:32,564 Maybe you could teach me how to weld. 429 00:30:32,647 --> 00:30:36,068 - Welding is very difficult, Homer. - I could learn. 430 00:30:39,488 --> 00:30:41,406 You don't give up, do you? 431 00:30:43,658 --> 00:30:45,077 I can't. 432 00:30:55,253 --> 00:30:57,672 - Come on, son. - Hi, Mr. Bolden. 433 00:31:01,927 --> 00:31:04,596 Hey, Homer. I heard you tellin' Ike... 434 00:31:04,679 --> 00:31:07,516 you were gonna be shootin' off another rocket up here today. 435 00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:10,185 I thought that might be somethin' we'd like to see. 436 00:31:13,188 --> 00:31:14,689 Whoa! 437 00:31:14,773 --> 00:31:18,193 Nine. Eight. Seven. 438 00:31:18,276 --> 00:31:20,445 Six. Five. 439 00:31:20,529 --> 00:31:23,281 Four. Three. 440 00:31:25,700 --> 00:31:27,786 Hey, look out! 441 00:31:27,869 --> 00:31:29,371 Mr. Bolden! 442 00:31:33,375 --> 00:31:36,711 - Mr. Bolden, are you okay? - I'm all right. 443 00:31:39,381 --> 00:31:42,467 - I'm sorry about that. - That's all right. 444 00:31:42,551 --> 00:31:46,638 Homer, I flew with the Red Tails in World War II. 445 00:31:46,722 --> 00:31:49,057 And seein' that rocket come at me... 446 00:31:49,141 --> 00:31:51,309 it almost took me back there. 447 00:31:53,228 --> 00:31:55,313 Let me have a look at that thing. 448 00:31:57,399 --> 00:31:59,317 That's a good job on the weld, Homer... 449 00:31:59,401 --> 00:32:03,572 but the heat from the exhaust melted the washer. 450 00:32:03,655 --> 00:32:07,576 It's referred to as a nozzle, sir. 451 00:32:07,659 --> 00:32:10,996 Son, you can call it whatever you wanna call it... 452 00:32:11,079 --> 00:32:15,500 but you're gonna have to have a better steel that can take the heat. 453 00:32:15,584 --> 00:32:19,755 Now I'd say S.A.E. 10-20 bar stock ought to do you fine. 454 00:32:19,838 --> 00:32:23,258 - And I can order it for you. - Well, that'd be great, Mr. Bolden. 455 00:32:23,341 --> 00:32:26,344 But it's kind of expensive. 456 00:32:28,096 --> 00:32:31,850 Twelve miles of scrap iron, and all we gotta do is pop it loose. 457 00:32:31,850 --> 00:32:35,270 Now what are we gonna tell the railroad when they catch us pryin' up the track? 458 00:32:35,353 --> 00:32:38,940 It's abandoned. See, the county's covered with abandoned spur lines. 459 00:32:39,107 --> 00:32:41,693 A mine shuts down, the track just rusts over. 460 00:32:47,699 --> 00:32:49,701 $8.20. 461 00:32:49,785 --> 00:32:52,788 This is worth $8.20? 462 00:32:52,871 --> 00:32:55,457 A ton. 463 00:32:55,540 --> 00:32:56,958 Come on. 464 00:33:01,797 --> 00:33:03,882 - Go, go! - This thing weighs a ton all by itself! 465 00:33:05,967 --> 00:33:07,886 Four hundred pounds. 466 00:33:07,969 --> 00:33:10,472 Four hundred pounds? 467 00:33:10,555 --> 00:33:12,724 All right. 468 00:33:12,808 --> 00:33:15,977 O'Dell, you're sayin' this thing is worth a buck 65? 469 00:33:45,340 --> 00:33:47,259 O'Dell? 470 00:33:47,342 --> 00:33:51,263 It's abandoned. Uh, look at the rust. 471 00:33:51,346 --> 00:33:54,099 Caretta number two shut down in '51. 472 00:33:56,184 --> 00:33:57,436 Shit! 473 00:33:57,519 --> 00:34:00,272 Get it up! Get it up! Just get it up! 474 00:34:00,355 --> 00:34:02,774 Give me a hand, man. Come on! 475 00:34:08,864 --> 00:34:11,366 Forget it! Forget it! Just stop the train! 476 00:34:11,450 --> 00:34:12,868 Roy Lee! 477 00:34:15,370 --> 00:34:18,123 - Stop! - Stop! The track's out! 478 00:34:51,573 --> 00:34:54,493 S.A.E. 10-20 bar stock. 479 00:34:54,576 --> 00:34:57,162 The angle of 30 degrees is crucial. When the fuel combusts... 480 00:34:57,245 --> 00:34:59,581 it creates a controlled explosion. 481 00:34:59,581 --> 00:35:02,417 The nozzle directs a river of hot gas... 482 00:35:02,417 --> 00:35:06,505 that can reach the speed of sound when it hits the mouth of the nozzle! 483 00:35:06,588 --> 00:35:09,174 Hey, Quentin. Sorry. 484 00:35:12,844 --> 00:35:15,931 It's called a tapered bore. 485 00:35:16,014 --> 00:35:19,768 A tapered bore. Now he's takin' off just a little bit at a time. 486 00:35:37,494 --> 00:35:39,579 Good deed, good deed. 487 00:35:47,129 --> 00:35:49,297 I'm concerned that the mass of the added propellant... 488 00:35:49,381 --> 00:35:52,467 compared to the mass of the empty rocket will be too little. 489 00:35:52,551 --> 00:35:54,302 He's afraid it'll be too heavy. 490 00:35:54,428 --> 00:35:56,388 Why don't we just make it longer? 491 00:35:56,513 --> 00:35:59,391 Longer would allow increased volume for the propellant... 492 00:35:59,474 --> 00:36:01,476 without much additional mass. 493 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:02,978 Great idea. 494 00:36:25,751 --> 00:36:27,169 Yeah. 495 00:36:28,670 --> 00:36:30,172 We got one! 496 00:36:54,696 --> 00:36:59,034 My guess is, is we're gettin' air pockets in the body of the propellant. 497 00:36:59,076 --> 00:37:02,370 When the fire hits 'em, they act like little combustion chambers. 498 00:37:02,370 --> 00:37:04,873 I think we're gonna need a liquid binder of some sort. 499 00:37:04,956 --> 00:37:10,295 - What about gasoline? - That's a good idea. 500 00:37:10,378 --> 00:37:13,173 "Four unidentifiable high school students... 501 00:37:13,298 --> 00:37:18,220 lost their lives earlier this mornin' when their toy rocket exploded." 502 00:37:18,303 --> 00:37:21,890 Alcohol. I mean, alcohol's stable. 503 00:37:22,015 --> 00:37:25,310 And it'll evaporate quickly. 504 00:37:25,394 --> 00:37:28,021 Yeah, but it'd have to be 100% undiluted. 505 00:37:28,063 --> 00:37:30,816 None of that watered-down stuff they sell at the company store. 506 00:37:30,899 --> 00:37:33,151 I have no idea where we could find that. 507 00:37:36,613 --> 00:37:39,491 Listen. I know these fellas, so let me do all the talkin'. 508 00:37:39,574 --> 00:37:41,493 I'm not gonna say a word. 509 00:37:43,829 --> 00:37:46,790 Is that rocket fuel or what? 510 00:38:20,782 --> 00:38:23,034 Great. 511 00:38:23,118 --> 00:38:26,163 How'd they find out about it? 512 00:38:26,204 --> 00:38:27,622 My brother. 513 00:38:31,042 --> 00:38:33,962 We poop out this time, the whole county's gonna be laughin' at us. 514 00:38:34,045 --> 00:38:37,299 - Who cares what any of them think? - Easy for you to say, Quentin. 515 00:38:37,382 --> 00:38:40,052 - You're used to being made fun of. - All right now. 516 00:38:40,135 --> 00:38:41,803 Quentin's right, y'all. 517 00:38:41,803 --> 00:38:45,140 Homer, you don't have to prove anything to anybody. 518 00:38:45,182 --> 00:38:47,142 You remember that. 519 00:38:47,267 --> 00:38:50,228 Now go launch yourself a rocket. 520 00:38:55,233 --> 00:38:56,651 Homer! 521 00:38:56,735 --> 00:38:58,153 Hello, Dorothy. 522 00:38:59,279 --> 00:39:02,407 - Is that thing really gonna fly? - Well, it-- 523 00:39:02,491 --> 00:39:04,409 That thing had better fly... 524 00:39:04,493 --> 00:39:07,996 or you can kiss your chances of losin' your virginity good-bye. 525 00:39:08,121 --> 00:39:11,166 Hey, couldn't you guys find somethin' better to do? 526 00:39:11,249 --> 00:39:13,668 Hey, listen. There's no practice on Saturdays. 527 00:39:13,668 --> 00:39:16,588 You little sisters are the only entertainment in town. 528 00:39:16,671 --> 00:39:19,091 Yeah, we were gonna drive over to war, but then we thought... 529 00:39:19,174 --> 00:39:21,676 hey, let's go see Homer blow himself up. 530 00:39:22,844 --> 00:39:25,764 That's real funny, Jim. 531 00:39:42,948 --> 00:39:45,117 Hey, Homer, come on. We don't got all day. 532 00:39:45,158 --> 00:39:47,119 Shut up, Jim. 533 00:39:47,202 --> 00:39:50,080 - Everything ready? - Wait. 534 00:39:50,205 --> 00:39:52,874 What do you mean, wait? Where you goin'? 535 00:40:06,972 --> 00:40:09,307 Hurry up, y'all. 536 00:40:09,391 --> 00:40:12,519 It won't fly unless somebody pulls the string. 537 00:40:18,525 --> 00:40:21,820 Ten. Nine. Eight. 538 00:40:21,903 --> 00:40:24,406 Seven. Six. 539 00:40:24,406 --> 00:40:27,242 Five. Four. 540 00:40:31,037 --> 00:40:32,581 Oh, my God! 541 00:40:49,806 --> 00:40:51,767 That's great! 542 00:40:57,439 --> 00:40:59,441 Homer, that was unbelievable! 543 00:40:59,524 --> 00:41:01,777 Let's go, Dorothy. 544 00:41:01,860 --> 00:41:03,695 I'll tell you what's unbelievable. 545 00:41:03,695 --> 00:41:06,198 The captain of the football team bein' jealous of you. 546 00:41:08,033 --> 00:41:10,452 What you think about gettin' in that science fair now? 547 00:41:10,535 --> 00:41:13,288 I think we got a chance. 548 00:41:18,210 --> 00:41:20,295 Well, bless her heart. 549 00:41:20,378 --> 00:41:23,048 Aunt Joanne hasn't seen you in about a year and a half. 550 00:41:23,173 --> 00:41:26,009 - You look like a sausage. - He does not. 551 00:41:27,552 --> 00:41:29,471 Happy birthday, Homer. 552 00:41:31,515 --> 00:41:34,893 It'll stretch when you wear it. Be sure and send her a nice thank you note now. 553 00:41:34,976 --> 00:41:38,730 - All right. - John? 554 00:41:38,814 --> 00:41:42,317 Oh, happy birthday, Homer. 555 00:41:42,401 --> 00:41:45,320 And I got this in the mail. 556 00:41:45,404 --> 00:41:47,489 Must be a present from Grandma. 557 00:41:54,996 --> 00:41:57,040 It's an autographed picture. 558 00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:01,336 - Of Grandma? Rather get socks. - Wernher von Braun. 559 00:42:01,420 --> 00:42:04,881 Well, wonder how he knew it was your birthday. 560 00:42:04,881 --> 00:42:06,425 I don't reckon he did. 561 00:42:06,425 --> 00:42:10,679 "Dear Homer, congratulations on your rocket building. 562 00:42:10,762 --> 00:42:12,681 Continue your education and maybe one day--" 563 00:42:12,764 --> 00:42:15,183 Boy, you better take an interest in your own damn town... 564 00:42:16,268 --> 00:42:18,854 instead of wastin' your time worryin' about... 565 00:42:18,937 --> 00:42:21,565 Wernher von Braun and Cape Canaveral. 566 00:42:21,690 --> 00:42:25,110 John, it's his birthday. 567 00:42:28,071 --> 00:42:30,615 All right, Homer. 568 00:42:37,956 --> 00:42:39,458 Yes? 569 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,005 Homer, there's strike talk startin' up again. Your father's-- 570 00:42:45,046 --> 00:42:48,467 Yeah, he's got a lot on his mind. Well, I don't give a damn! 571 00:42:51,219 --> 00:42:54,473 "Principles of Guided Missile Design." 572 00:42:54,473 --> 00:42:57,893 I had Miss Waters order it for you a while back, and it just came. 573 00:42:59,853 --> 00:43:02,731 I know the math is too advanced for you. It is for me too. 574 00:43:02,814 --> 00:43:05,859 - There's calculus, differential equa-- - I'll learn the math. 575 00:43:05,984 --> 00:43:09,237 This is great, Miss Riley. I'll learn everything. 576 00:43:09,321 --> 00:43:11,239 It's the best present anyone's ever given me. 577 00:43:12,657 --> 00:43:16,036 Thank you. I'm gonna show the guys. 578 00:43:16,161 --> 00:43:18,830 - Quentin will probably go cra-- - Goodness gracious. 579 00:43:18,914 --> 00:43:22,167 Watch where you're goin'. 580 00:43:22,167 --> 00:43:24,336 - Where'd you get this? - I gave it to him. 581 00:43:26,004 --> 00:43:27,589 Bye, Miss Riley. 582 00:43:30,008 --> 00:43:34,429 Miss Riley, our job is to give these kids an education, not false hopes. 583 00:43:34,513 --> 00:43:36,431 False hopes? 584 00:43:37,849 --> 00:43:39,768 Do you want me to sit quiet... 585 00:43:39,851 --> 00:43:42,687 let 'em breathe in coal dust the rest of their life? 586 00:43:42,771 --> 00:43:45,440 Miss Riley, once in a while... 587 00:43:45,482 --> 00:43:48,276 a lucky one will get out on a football scholarship. 588 00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,613 The rest of 'em work in the mines. 589 00:43:51,696 --> 00:43:54,783 How about I believe in the unlucky ones, hmm? 590 00:43:54,866 --> 00:43:58,203 I have to, Mr. Turner, or I'd go out of my mind. 591 00:44:04,251 --> 00:44:06,336 - It's good. - Homer! 592 00:44:06,461 --> 00:44:08,964 Happy birthday, son. 593 00:44:09,047 --> 00:44:10,966 Got some good news for you, Homer. 594 00:44:11,049 --> 00:44:14,386 Say hello to Fred Smith from the University of West Virginia. 595 00:44:14,428 --> 00:44:16,513 - Hello, Homer. - Hi, sir. 596 00:44:16,555 --> 00:44:20,559 Mr. Smith wants Jim to play football. He's offering him a full scholarship. 597 00:44:20,642 --> 00:44:22,519 Well, congratulations, Jim. 598 00:44:22,644 --> 00:44:24,855 Do you play ball, son? 599 00:44:24,896 --> 00:44:28,734 No, Homer shoots off rockets. Whoosh and all that. 600 00:44:28,775 --> 00:44:30,736 Well, rockets are not exactly my field, son... 601 00:44:30,736 --> 00:44:33,196 but maybe if you work hard, you'll go to college too. 602 00:44:33,238 --> 00:44:35,991 Yeah, on a science fiction scholarship, maybe. 603 00:44:47,544 --> 00:44:51,423 Dear Dr. von Braun, thank you for the autographed picture. 604 00:44:51,423 --> 00:44:54,051 It will only further inspire me to keep working... 605 00:44:54,092 --> 00:44:58,346 toward our all-important goal of entering that science fair this spring. 606 00:45:24,039 --> 00:45:26,792 We're shootin' off a rocket today. 607 00:45:29,127 --> 00:45:31,046 I thought you'd like to see it. 608 00:45:31,129 --> 00:45:33,924 I gotta catch up on some work. 609 00:45:36,218 --> 00:45:40,055 How come you never have work when Jim plays football? 610 00:45:40,138 --> 00:45:42,057 You never miss a game. 611 00:45:47,479 --> 00:45:49,731 What time are you gonna do it? 612 00:45:50,816 --> 00:45:52,734 About 4:00. 613 00:45:54,403 --> 00:45:56,321 I can't promise you-- 614 00:45:58,573 --> 00:46:01,660 Somebody pulled a pillar too close. 615 00:46:04,913 --> 00:46:06,164 Yeah? 616 00:46:07,999 --> 00:46:11,920 Well, thank God for that. Yeah, right now. 617 00:46:14,256 --> 00:46:15,674 Nobody hurt. 618 00:46:22,514 --> 00:46:24,516 Go, Rocket Boys! 619 00:46:28,353 --> 00:46:32,274 Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. 620 00:46:32,357 --> 00:46:34,276 Six. Five. 621 00:46:34,359 --> 00:46:36,695 Four. Three. Two. 622 00:46:36,778 --> 00:46:38,447 One. Liftoff! 623 00:46:54,796 --> 00:46:56,298 You got it? Can you see? 624 00:46:56,381 --> 00:46:58,467 - No. Yes. - See it? 625 00:46:58,550 --> 00:47:00,135 Yeah, I got it. 626 00:47:00,218 --> 00:47:03,388 - What's the time? - Looks like 12 seconds. 627 00:47:03,472 --> 00:47:05,807 - Which one of you is Homer Hickam? - It's me, sir. 628 00:47:05,891 --> 00:47:08,393 I'm Basil Thorpe with the Bluefield Telegraph. 629 00:47:08,477 --> 00:47:11,063 Can I ask you a few questions? 630 00:47:11,146 --> 00:47:13,065 Sure. 631 00:47:13,148 --> 00:47:18,320 "The silvery cylinder burst forth in a fiery column of smoke and flame... 632 00:47:18,403 --> 00:47:21,740 racing the very wind as it soared into the sky... 633 00:47:21,823 --> 00:47:24,076 a messenger of these Rocket Boys of Big Creek. 634 00:47:24,076 --> 00:47:26,828 These boys who use their brains, not brawn... 635 00:47:26,912 --> 00:47:30,332 who play not football, but with Apollo's fire." 636 00:47:31,333 --> 00:47:32,584 Hi, Homer. 637 00:47:32,667 --> 00:47:36,755 - Hi, Dorothy. - Would you please sign my newspaper? 638 00:47:36,838 --> 00:47:39,091 Sure. 639 00:47:39,174 --> 00:47:41,676 I just know you're gonna be really famous someday. 640 00:47:44,763 --> 00:47:49,351 H-O-M-E-R. 641 00:47:50,769 --> 00:47:53,355 Which one of you fellas is Homer Hickam? 642 00:47:54,689 --> 00:47:56,274 Excuse me. 643 00:47:59,945 --> 00:48:02,280 - Which cost the taxpayers-- - What in the world is goin' on? 644 00:48:02,364 --> 00:48:05,367 This does not concern you. 645 00:48:05,450 --> 00:48:07,702 You have these boys in handcuffs. 646 00:48:07,786 --> 00:48:12,124 You have these boys in handcuffs in a high school, Mr. Turner. 647 00:48:12,207 --> 00:48:15,293 You probably heard about the forest fire last week over by Welch. 648 00:48:15,377 --> 00:48:18,797 - A lot of timber went up in smoke. - Take these handcuffs off these boys. 649 00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:21,717 They found a rocket on the side of the road. 650 00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:25,053 We knew it started the fire. What we didn't know is where it came from... 651 00:48:25,137 --> 00:48:26,888 till this morning. 652 00:48:26,972 --> 00:48:30,976 Mr. Hickam, can you account for all your rockets? 653 00:48:31,059 --> 00:48:32,978 No, sir. I can't. 654 00:48:45,323 --> 00:48:47,826 If you weren't a minor, you'd be in the state penitentiary. 655 00:48:47,909 --> 00:48:50,579 - I know, Dad. - Homer, I've been confused by you. 656 00:48:50,662 --> 00:48:52,998 I've been mad as hell at you. 657 00:48:53,081 --> 00:48:56,001 But it's the first time in your life I've been ashamed of you. 658 00:48:56,084 --> 00:48:58,920 Stop! Stop! 659 00:49:00,756 --> 00:49:03,091 You couldn't stop, man. You couldn't! 660 00:49:04,176 --> 00:49:08,096 Get in the car, Homer! Homer, get in the car! 661 00:49:08,180 --> 00:49:11,433 Idiot! I ought to goddamn kill ya. 662 00:49:17,105 --> 00:49:20,692 We ain't at the mine now. This ain't your business. 663 00:49:20,776 --> 00:49:23,195 You get in the car with Homer, son. 664 00:49:24,362 --> 00:49:26,948 You listen to me, you drunken son of a bitch. 665 00:49:27,032 --> 00:49:30,452 If that boy's father was alive, he'd kick your ass. 666 00:49:30,535 --> 00:49:32,621 So I'm gonna have to do it for him. 667 00:49:32,704 --> 00:49:36,208 If I see him with a bruise, you get a scar. 668 00:49:36,291 --> 00:49:39,127 If I see him with a limp, you get crutches! 669 00:49:40,629 --> 00:49:43,965 You hear me? Do you hear me? 670 00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:50,889 You know, I'm reportin' you to the union! 671 00:49:50,889 --> 00:49:53,392 Screw you and your damn union. 672 00:50:09,408 --> 00:50:14,246 Your father was one of the best men I ever had workin' for me. 673 00:50:20,001 --> 00:50:22,337 I was lucky to know him. 674 00:51:12,554 --> 00:51:14,473 Come on. 675 00:51:16,391 --> 00:51:19,061 Let's go have some fun for a change. 676 00:51:50,592 --> 00:51:52,427 They watched us get arrested. 677 00:51:52,511 --> 00:51:55,597 We're practically ex-convicts. 678 00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:57,849 They'll never dance with us. 679 00:51:57,933 --> 00:51:59,935 Jesus, Quentin. 680 00:52:00,018 --> 00:52:04,022 You don't know anything about women. 681 00:52:04,106 --> 00:52:07,859 I heard she broke up with that dumb jock. 682 00:52:10,278 --> 00:52:13,031 See you later, Elvis. 683 00:52:16,284 --> 00:52:19,371 Many a tear has to fall 684 00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:26,378 But it's all in the game 685 00:52:30,882 --> 00:52:34,720 All in the wonderful game 686 00:52:34,803 --> 00:52:37,973 That we know 687 00:52:38,056 --> 00:52:40,642 As love 688 00:52:40,726 --> 00:52:42,728 Hi, Homer. 689 00:52:42,811 --> 00:52:44,730 Hi, Dorothy. 690 00:52:44,813 --> 00:52:49,401 - You have words with him - Jim, look who's here. 691 00:52:49,484 --> 00:52:51,987 Ain't it past your bedtime? 692 00:52:52,070 --> 00:52:56,241 And your future's looking dim 693 00:52:58,410 --> 00:53:02,080 - But these things - Way to go. 694 00:53:02,164 --> 00:53:05,667 Your hearts can rise 695 00:53:05,751 --> 00:53:08,086 Above 696 00:53:11,673 --> 00:53:15,594 Once in a while he won't call 697 00:53:25,937 --> 00:53:28,273 When the twilight is gone 698 00:53:31,359 --> 00:53:33,862 - Hi, Valentine. - And no songbirds are singing 699 00:53:36,114 --> 00:53:38,950 I'm glad you didn't go to jail. 700 00:53:42,204 --> 00:53:44,539 You come into my heart 701 00:53:46,625 --> 00:53:50,962 And here in my heart you will stay 702 00:53:53,048 --> 00:53:56,885 It sure was exciting watching your rockets go up. 703 00:53:56,968 --> 00:53:59,638 I pray 704 00:54:02,224 --> 00:54:05,477 My prayer 705 00:54:07,646 --> 00:54:11,650 Is to linger with you 706 00:54:13,819 --> 00:54:17,322 At the end of the day 707 00:54:37,259 --> 00:54:41,263 You ever see that movie, "Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman"? 708 00:54:47,853 --> 00:54:49,771 Homer! 709 00:54:49,855 --> 00:54:52,441 Down here! Homer! 710 00:54:55,444 --> 00:54:56,862 What is it? 711 00:55:09,207 --> 00:55:11,376 Mom! Mom! 712 00:55:15,797 --> 00:55:19,134 Your father always has to be the big hero. 713 00:55:19,217 --> 00:55:22,804 I swear to God, if he gets killed, I won't shed a tear. 714 00:55:42,240 --> 00:55:44,159 It's comin' up! 715 00:56:12,187 --> 00:56:13,772 Who is it? 716 00:56:24,616 --> 00:56:26,118 It's Ike Bykovsky. 717 00:56:32,958 --> 00:56:34,376 It's John Hickam. 718 00:56:36,044 --> 00:56:37,462 Dad! 719 00:56:37,546 --> 00:56:40,215 - The cable snapped. - May have fractured his skull. 720 00:56:45,137 --> 00:56:46,888 Out of the way! 721 00:56:46,972 --> 00:56:49,141 Move back, folks. Let us through. 722 00:56:50,809 --> 00:56:52,394 I'll tell you what. 723 00:56:52,477 --> 00:56:56,231 A dozen men would've died today if it hadn't been for your dad. 724 00:57:41,193 --> 00:57:42,861 Thank you, Doctor. 725 00:57:43,945 --> 00:57:46,198 Mm-hmm. Bye-bye. 726 00:58:04,383 --> 00:58:05,884 The... 727 00:58:07,386 --> 00:58:08,970 doctor says... 728 00:58:09,054 --> 00:58:13,058 there's a chance your dad could lose his eye. 729 00:58:13,058 --> 00:58:15,977 He has to go to the hospital... 730 00:58:16,061 --> 00:58:17,896 in Charleston... 731 00:58:17,896 --> 00:58:20,649 and Olga won't pay for all of it. 732 00:58:21,900 --> 00:58:25,320 I'm gonna go to the mine and ask Jake Mosby to sign me on. 733 00:58:25,404 --> 00:58:28,573 You can't do that, Jim. You've got school. 734 00:58:28,657 --> 00:58:32,077 Olga owns this house and half the furniture in it. 735 00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:35,831 If you drop out, you'll lose your scholarship. 736 00:58:35,914 --> 00:58:38,333 I'm the oldest. It's my responsibility. 737 00:58:38,417 --> 00:58:40,752 I'll work in the mine. 738 00:59:17,289 --> 00:59:19,374 - Here you are. - Thank you. 739 00:59:23,962 --> 00:59:27,132 Mining coal is an honorable trade, Mr. Hickam. 740 00:59:30,635 --> 00:59:33,305 Nothing to be ashamed of. 741 00:59:47,986 --> 00:59:50,155 Miss Riley! 742 01:01:18,577 --> 01:01:20,495 Turn your light on, boy. 743 01:02:06,541 --> 01:02:09,127 Remember when you gave me these, John? 744 01:02:09,211 --> 01:02:11,713 Carbon crystals from the mine. 745 01:02:11,797 --> 01:02:13,799 Yeah. Honeymoon. 746 01:02:13,882 --> 01:02:15,467 At Myrtle Beach. 747 01:02:17,803 --> 01:02:19,304 And you said... 748 01:02:19,304 --> 01:02:23,141 "You always wanted diamonds, but these are the best I can do. 749 01:02:23,225 --> 01:02:25,143 I wish they were real." 750 01:02:26,311 --> 01:02:29,398 John, I never wanted diamonds. 751 01:02:35,487 --> 01:02:37,322 This whole year... 752 01:02:37,406 --> 01:02:40,742 has been pretty rough going down at the mine. 753 01:02:42,411 --> 01:02:44,830 Bad tempers and... 754 01:02:44,913 --> 01:02:47,165 a lot of strike talk. 755 01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:52,337 An accident makes things worse. 756 01:02:54,339 --> 01:02:56,675 In a way, I guess... 757 01:02:56,675 --> 01:03:00,011 I'm the one who's responsible for what happened to Mr. Bykovsky. 758 01:03:00,011 --> 01:03:02,013 Listen to me, Homer. 759 01:03:04,933 --> 01:03:07,185 Last month... 760 01:03:07,269 --> 01:03:10,856 I gave Ike the chance to go back to the machine shop... 761 01:03:10,856 --> 01:03:13,442 and he turned it down. 762 01:03:13,525 --> 01:03:17,028 Yeah, he stayed in the mine 'cause the money was better. 763 01:03:18,029 --> 01:03:20,115 That was his decision. 764 01:03:20,782 --> 01:03:22,367 You understand me? 765 01:03:23,535 --> 01:03:25,036 Yes, sir. 766 01:03:27,706 --> 01:03:32,627 Well, is mining coal as terrible as you figured it'd be? 767 01:03:32,711 --> 01:03:34,296 I guess not. 768 01:03:36,965 --> 01:03:38,383 But almost. 769 01:03:59,071 --> 01:04:01,656 Everybody says to say hi. 770 01:04:01,740 --> 01:04:03,575 Michael and Billy. 771 01:04:03,742 --> 01:04:05,827 Valentine Carmina. 772 01:04:05,911 --> 01:04:07,829 How about Miss Riley? 773 01:04:07,913 --> 01:04:12,334 She ain't been around much. She got some new boyfriend in Welch. 774 01:04:14,002 --> 01:04:17,172 So, what's it like down there? 775 01:04:21,009 --> 01:04:23,428 You get used to it after a while. 776 01:04:24,846 --> 01:04:27,849 Besides, shoveling coal's got its advantages. 777 01:04:27,933 --> 01:04:29,518 Check this out. 778 01:04:30,852 --> 01:04:34,606 Man, no wonder my stepdad can slug me so good. 779 01:04:34,606 --> 01:04:37,526 After a month down there, you'd be able to knock him out. 780 01:04:39,861 --> 01:04:42,781 I ain't in no hurry. 781 01:04:52,541 --> 01:04:54,960 - See you all later. - See ya, man. 782 01:04:55,043 --> 01:04:56,461 See ya, Homer. 783 01:04:58,714 --> 01:05:00,632 In Christ's name, we pray. 784 01:05:00,716 --> 01:05:02,634 - Amen. - Amen. 785 01:05:07,806 --> 01:05:11,226 We appreciate the sacrifice you made here, Homer. 786 01:05:11,309 --> 01:05:15,230 Pretty soon you'll be able to go back and finish up the school year. 787 01:05:17,232 --> 01:05:19,234 I'm not going back to school. 788 01:05:20,402 --> 01:05:24,156 A few weeks left in the term, I'll just stay put. 789 01:05:24,156 --> 01:05:27,159 I think you ought to finish high school. 790 01:05:29,911 --> 01:05:32,164 Well, tell him, John. 791 01:05:33,665 --> 01:05:36,334 Homer's not a boy anymore. 792 01:05:38,253 --> 01:05:41,506 I don't think I can tell him anything. 793 01:05:54,019 --> 01:05:58,440 All I'm saying is the cutoff was not done proper according to contract. 794 01:05:58,523 --> 01:06:00,525 The company did what it had to do. 795 01:06:00,609 --> 01:06:03,028 You know the union won't put up with it. 796 01:06:03,111 --> 01:06:05,113 Just give it a rest, Jake. 797 01:06:05,197 --> 01:06:07,115 It's my first day back. 798 01:06:11,703 --> 01:06:15,791 Hey, Lenny, how's he doin'? 799 01:06:15,874 --> 01:06:19,628 He's a chip off the old block. It's good to have you back. 800 01:06:19,711 --> 01:06:21,963 Thank you. 801 01:06:26,385 --> 01:06:28,303 I'm headed toward the face. 802 01:06:28,387 --> 01:06:30,305 You wanna come along? 803 01:06:34,059 --> 01:06:38,063 Even though I don't have that piece of paper-- the thing from college-- 804 01:06:38,146 --> 01:06:40,065 they listen to me. 805 01:06:41,233 --> 01:06:45,070 - You know why? - Because you know more than they do. 806 01:06:45,153 --> 01:06:47,322 You bet your life I do. 807 01:06:47,406 --> 01:06:52,077 Homer, I know the mine like I know a man. 808 01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:55,080 I can take one look around here-- 809 01:06:57,916 --> 01:06:59,584 Are you all right? 810 01:07:00,752 --> 01:07:02,671 I'm not afraid of a little coal dust. 811 01:07:03,839 --> 01:07:05,757 Hell, I was born for this. 812 01:07:05,841 --> 01:07:09,678 I guess it shouldn't surprise me that you were too. 813 01:07:09,761 --> 01:07:12,431 Let's go watch 'em shoot some coal. 814 01:07:22,357 --> 01:07:26,278 Hold dinner for a while, will ya? I have to make a call. 815 01:07:35,787 --> 01:07:39,458 I was in the store today, and I heard some talk. 816 01:07:52,554 --> 01:07:56,141 Boy, it's sure hard to keep a secret in this town, isn't it? 817 01:07:56,224 --> 01:07:58,977 But I guess I did a pretty good job. 818 01:07:58,977 --> 01:08:00,979 There's a rumor going around... 819 01:08:00,979 --> 01:08:03,982 that I've been sneaking off to Welch to see some beau. 820 01:08:04,066 --> 01:08:06,985 I wish that rumor'd been true. 821 01:08:06,985 --> 01:08:12,324 They told me Hodgkin's can go into remission, so I might have some time. 822 01:08:12,324 --> 01:08:14,910 Is there anything I can do, Miss Riley? 823 01:08:15,827 --> 01:08:18,330 You can accept my apology. 824 01:08:18,997 --> 01:08:21,083 For what? 825 01:08:21,166 --> 01:08:23,585 My life's work is teaching. 826 01:08:23,668 --> 01:08:27,089 And I believed that if you boys won that science fair... 827 01:08:27,172 --> 01:08:28,757 got scholarships... 828 01:08:28,840 --> 01:08:32,177 went off and did something great with your lives... 829 01:08:32,177 --> 01:08:35,013 somehow my life would have counted for something. 830 01:08:41,853 --> 01:08:44,189 You know what? 831 01:08:44,189 --> 01:08:48,443 Sometimes you really can't listen to what anybody else says. 832 01:08:48,527 --> 01:08:50,862 You just gotta listen inside. 833 01:08:52,364 --> 01:08:55,283 You're not supposed to end up in those mines. 834 01:08:55,367 --> 01:08:58,787 You know why? 'Cause I think you made other plans. 835 01:08:59,788 --> 01:09:02,290 I want you to know something. 836 01:09:02,374 --> 01:09:04,710 I'm proud of you. 837 01:09:04,793 --> 01:09:06,545 I am. 838 01:09:06,628 --> 01:09:08,547 Whatever you choose. 839 01:10:51,149 --> 01:10:54,152 Excuse me, ma'am. Is Quentin home? 840 01:11:06,665 --> 01:11:10,419 Homer, you figured this equation out by yourself? 841 01:11:10,502 --> 01:11:13,755 Well, if I did the math right, it proves that you can't-- 842 01:11:13,839 --> 01:11:15,841 It proves we didn't start that fire! 843 01:11:15,841 --> 01:11:17,426 Quentin, what are you doing? 844 01:11:17,509 --> 01:11:21,096 Now, the AUK Xlll was the only one that we couldn't find that day. 845 01:11:21,179 --> 01:11:23,765 And our best guess for fall time with the AUK Xll... 846 01:11:23,849 --> 01:11:26,852 which is exactly identical, was about 14 seconds. 847 01:11:26,852 --> 01:11:29,187 If you help me with the trig part... 848 01:11:29,271 --> 01:11:32,190 we should be able to make a good guess where that rocket landed. 849 01:11:46,538 --> 01:11:49,082 6,328 feet? 850 01:11:50,375 --> 01:11:52,169 1.2 miles. 851 01:11:55,547 --> 01:11:57,049 Yeah? 852 01:12:00,135 --> 01:12:03,722 Are you gonna tell Roy Lee and O'Dell where I live? 853 01:12:04,890 --> 01:12:08,727 It wouldn't matter if you lived in the governor's mansion. 854 01:12:08,810 --> 01:12:10,812 They'd still think you're weird. 855 01:12:16,985 --> 01:12:21,490 - I'll see you at dawn. - Don't you have to go to the mine? 856 01:12:22,741 --> 01:12:24,743 I don't work there anymore. 857 01:12:41,093 --> 01:12:42,511 One. 858 01:12:49,684 --> 01:12:51,103 Two. 859 01:13:00,695 --> 01:13:02,197 Ninety-nine. 860 01:13:06,451 --> 01:13:07,828 A hundred seven. 861 01:13:27,889 --> 01:13:29,683 126. 862 01:13:31,226 --> 01:13:34,062 That's 6,300 feet. 863 01:13:34,146 --> 01:13:36,440 It's gotta be around here somewhere. 864 01:14:01,173 --> 01:14:03,425 What did we do wrong? 865 01:14:03,508 --> 01:14:05,427 I don't know. 866 01:14:05,510 --> 01:14:07,220 I'll check the math again. 867 01:14:17,022 --> 01:14:19,232 Was there a wind that day? 868 01:14:20,025 --> 01:14:21,610 I don't remember. 869 01:14:21,693 --> 01:14:26,364 'Cause if there was, the wind probably came from the west... 870 01:14:26,490 --> 01:14:29,451 which means that it would've pushed the rocket... 871 01:14:31,745 --> 01:14:33,330 right there. 872 01:14:37,626 --> 01:14:39,878 Prodigious! 873 01:14:39,961 --> 01:14:41,630 ...associated-- 874 01:14:48,220 --> 01:14:51,890 Mr. Hayes, where are you off to in such a hurry? 875 01:14:52,808 --> 01:14:54,893 Everybody, back in your seats. 876 01:14:54,976 --> 01:14:57,062 Miss Stanton, Miss Blue, let's go. 877 01:14:57,145 --> 01:14:59,064 Back in your seats. Mr. Hancock. 878 01:15:00,482 --> 01:15:02,734 That goes for you, too, Mr. Wilson. 879 01:15:07,072 --> 01:15:08,990 Miss Riley, what's going on here? 880 01:15:09,658 --> 01:15:12,077 They didn't start that fire, Mr. Turner. 881 01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:15,580 In the first place, you are not a member of this classroom. 882 01:15:15,664 --> 01:15:17,749 Neither are you, Mr. Turner. 883 01:15:17,833 --> 01:15:19,710 Why don't you let the boy defend himself? 884 01:15:19,835 --> 01:15:21,837 And in the second place... 885 01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:23,880 this rocket proves nothing. 886 01:15:23,922 --> 01:15:26,758 You've already admitted having lost a number of your rockets. 887 01:15:26,842 --> 01:15:28,677 You cannot prove conclusively... 888 01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:31,430 that another one of them didn't start that fire. 889 01:15:31,513 --> 01:15:33,432 - Yes, I can. - Oh? 890 01:15:39,354 --> 01:15:41,940 Are we to conclude that since leaving school... 891 01:15:42,023 --> 01:15:45,110 you've not only become an expert in rocket science but in trigonometry? 892 01:15:45,193 --> 01:15:47,946 - I didn't say I was-- - You learned more in the coal mines... 893 01:15:48,029 --> 01:15:50,115 than you did in high school. 894 01:15:50,198 --> 01:15:52,200 Let the boy talk. 895 01:15:52,284 --> 01:15:53,869 Go ahead, Homer. 896 01:15:53,952 --> 01:15:55,954 Now, that fire was near Welch... 897 01:15:56,038 --> 01:15:58,874 just under three miles from our launch pad. 898 01:15:58,957 --> 01:16:03,545 At the time of the fire, the best that we could do was 1.2 miles... 899 01:16:03,628 --> 01:16:06,214 which is exactly where we found that rocket. 900 01:16:07,299 --> 01:16:10,552 See, that rocket fell for about 14 seconds, which means... 901 01:16:10,635 --> 01:16:13,305 that it flew to an altitude of 3,000 feet... 902 01:16:13,388 --> 01:16:14,806 according to the equation... 903 01:16:14,890 --> 01:16:19,561 "S" equals one-half "A-T" squared... 904 01:16:19,644 --> 01:16:22,647 where "S" is the altitude, "A" is the gravity constant, or 32... 905 01:16:22,773 --> 01:16:25,484 and "T" is the time it took for that rocket to come back down. 906 01:16:25,567 --> 01:16:27,402 - Velocity equals acceleration... - Get him, Homer. 907 01:16:27,486 --> 01:16:28,820 times time. 908 01:16:28,904 --> 01:16:31,114 Are you following this, Mr. Turner? 909 01:16:31,239 --> 01:16:34,242 All right. We're all duly impressed. 910 01:16:34,284 --> 01:16:38,413 Would you mind telling me if you did not start that fire, who did? 911 01:16:40,665 --> 01:16:42,584 What is it? 912 01:16:42,626 --> 01:16:47,172 Whatever it is, it's ingenious. The fins are spring-loaded. 913 01:16:47,923 --> 01:16:51,343 That isn't a rocket at all. It's an aeronautical flare. 914 01:16:53,929 --> 01:16:55,931 There's an airport here in Welch. 915 01:16:56,014 --> 01:16:58,100 It's right above where the fire started. 916 01:17:07,442 --> 01:17:11,279 Mr. Hickam, report to my office as soon as we return to school. 917 01:17:12,364 --> 01:17:15,700 You do intend to enter the county science fair, do you not? 918 01:17:15,784 --> 01:17:17,703 Yes, sir, we do. 919 01:17:17,786 --> 01:17:20,539 If you intend to represent Big Creek... 920 01:17:20,622 --> 01:17:23,834 you're going to have to be enrolled as a student at Big Creek. 921 01:17:26,420 --> 01:17:27,963 "Prodigenous." 922 01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:34,261 Do you think you can draw well enough so Mr. Bolden could build it? 923 01:17:34,386 --> 01:17:35,971 Yep. Let me see. 924 01:17:37,055 --> 01:17:38,724 Yep. 925 01:17:38,807 --> 01:17:40,225 Hi, Dad. 926 01:17:40,308 --> 01:17:43,395 - What's this stuff doin' here? - We didn't start the fire. 927 01:17:43,478 --> 01:17:45,313 The troopers gave it back to us. 928 01:17:45,397 --> 01:17:47,649 It wasn't even one of our rockets. 929 01:17:47,774 --> 01:17:49,818 Y'all go on home now. 930 01:17:51,153 --> 01:17:52,571 Yes, sir. 931 01:18:08,503 --> 01:18:11,590 This the reason you skipped work today? 932 01:18:11,673 --> 01:18:12,924 Yes, sir. 933 01:18:16,511 --> 01:18:20,140 I thought you put all this nonsense behind you, Homer. 934 01:18:20,265 --> 01:18:23,101 - I thought you weren't gonna do it. - It isn't nonsense. 935 01:18:23,185 --> 01:18:25,520 I don't wanna argue with ya. 936 01:18:25,604 --> 01:18:27,689 Look, son. 937 01:18:27,773 --> 01:18:31,610 I can't even begin to tell you how proud of you I've been these past weeks. 938 01:18:31,693 --> 01:18:36,531 You just been doin' a hell of a job in that mine. 939 01:18:36,615 --> 01:18:39,409 You keep goin', you're gonna have my job someday. 940 01:18:40,202 --> 01:18:42,704 Everybody says so. 941 01:18:43,789 --> 01:18:46,875 You got any idea how proud that would make me? 942 01:18:49,461 --> 01:18:52,214 I guess what I'm sayin' is... 943 01:18:52,297 --> 01:18:55,884 that if this rocket stuff is so important to you... 944 01:18:56,009 --> 01:18:57,969 then so be it... 945 01:18:58,053 --> 01:18:59,805 as long as you're careful. 946 01:18:59,888 --> 01:19:02,641 Guess there's worse hobbies you could have. 947 01:19:03,475 --> 01:19:06,478 But skippin' work, that's out of line. 948 01:19:06,561 --> 01:19:09,314 And you got to know that. 949 01:19:09,398 --> 01:19:13,151 So, let's go and get you right with Jake. 950 01:19:13,276 --> 01:19:15,987 Tell him you'll work the hoot owl shift tonight. 951 01:19:16,071 --> 01:19:17,322 No. 952 01:19:21,493 --> 01:19:25,080 The coal mine's your life. It's not mine. 953 01:19:30,752 --> 01:19:33,672 I'm never goin' down there again. 954 01:19:40,011 --> 01:19:42,097 I wanna go into space. 955 01:20:05,704 --> 01:20:09,458 Homer Hickam, Roy Lee Cook, Quentin Wilson... 956 01:20:09,583 --> 01:20:11,793 and Sherman O'Dell of Big Creek High... 957 01:20:11,877 --> 01:20:14,755 for their ingenious display of amateur rocket-building techniques. 958 01:20:34,900 --> 01:20:37,402 I can't believe we beat the kid with the robot dog. 959 01:20:37,486 --> 01:20:41,073 I thought the see-through ear was gonna win. 960 01:20:41,156 --> 01:20:44,743 I got Miss Wade working on your travel arrangements, so... 961 01:20:44,826 --> 01:20:47,621 you boys are gonna have to decide who's going to Indianapolis. 962 01:20:48,622 --> 01:20:50,499 - We were all goin'. - Yeah. 963 01:20:50,582 --> 01:20:54,378 I wish you could, but we can't afford to send all four of you. 964 01:20:54,419 --> 01:20:58,507 Only one. Let me know. I'm going to have to know by Friday. 965 01:20:58,590 --> 01:21:01,176 You boys did a fine job today. 966 01:21:12,771 --> 01:21:15,941 I need to borrow a suitcase, and I'm gonna need you guys' addresses... 967 01:21:16,024 --> 01:21:18,026 because I'm gonna write some postcards. 968 01:21:18,026 --> 01:21:19,611 Shut up. 969 01:21:19,694 --> 01:21:22,364 Come on, you dope. You know you're going. 970 01:21:23,657 --> 01:21:27,619 Yeah. Say hello to the outside world for us. 971 01:21:27,744 --> 01:21:29,955 - Do we know what we want? - Yeah! 972 01:21:30,038 --> 01:21:31,957 - Are we gettin' it? - No! 973 01:21:31,998 --> 01:21:35,961 All right. All in favor of going on strike, say aye! 974 01:21:36,086 --> 01:21:38,213 - Aye! - All right, let's go! 975 01:21:40,340 --> 01:21:42,843 All right, shut 'em down! Let's go! 976 01:21:42,884 --> 01:21:45,220 Strike! Strike! 977 01:22:04,489 --> 01:22:06,575 They sure are getting themselves worked up. 978 01:22:06,658 --> 01:22:08,577 Everybody's saying this one's gonna be a long one. 979 01:22:08,660 --> 01:22:11,663 And it will, if I have anything to say about it. 980 01:22:11,747 --> 01:22:13,582 Ungrateful sons of bitches-- 981 01:22:13,623 --> 01:22:16,001 Mom, have you seen the big green suitcase? 982 01:22:16,084 --> 01:22:19,004 - Did you look in the attic? - Yes, ma'am. 983 01:22:19,087 --> 01:22:21,757 I don't know. John, you know where the suitcase is? 984 01:22:23,842 --> 01:22:27,596 How the hell should I know where the suitcase is? 985 01:22:27,721 --> 01:22:29,681 I don't know, sug. 986 01:22:46,114 --> 01:22:47,949 Y'all stay inside! 987 01:22:53,246 --> 01:22:54,456 Vernon! 988 01:22:54,539 --> 01:22:56,625 I'm gonna kill that son of a bitch. 989 01:22:56,708 --> 01:22:58,710 Don't be a damn fool. 990 01:22:58,794 --> 01:23:00,712 What are we gonna do? 991 01:23:02,130 --> 01:23:03,632 Nothin'. 992 01:23:03,673 --> 01:23:07,135 Drunken bastard couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. 993 01:23:07,135 --> 01:23:09,971 - He tried to kill you. - You can't just stand there-- 994 01:23:09,971 --> 01:23:12,307 Don't trouble yourself, Homer. 995 01:23:12,307 --> 01:23:14,976 You got more important things to worry about. 996 01:23:15,060 --> 01:23:18,563 Just go look for your suitcase. 997 01:23:22,651 --> 01:23:24,486 Forget about it, Homer. 998 01:23:26,238 --> 01:23:27,697 Shut up, Jim! 999 01:23:28,990 --> 01:23:32,828 I'm sorry about what's going on around here, but it isn't my fault! 1000 01:23:32,911 --> 01:23:35,831 - What do you want from me anyway? - Watch yourself! 1001 01:23:35,914 --> 01:23:38,625 If I win at Indianapolis, maybe I can go to college! 1002 01:23:38,625 --> 01:23:40,585 Maybe even get a job at Cape Canaveral! 1003 01:23:40,669 --> 01:23:42,754 There's nothin' here for me! 1004 01:23:42,796 --> 01:23:46,758 The town is dying! The mine is dying! Everybody knows it but you! 1005 01:23:46,842 --> 01:23:49,636 You wanna get outta here so bad, then go! Go! 1006 01:23:49,761 --> 01:23:51,012 Yeah, I'll go! 1007 01:23:51,138 --> 01:23:52,431 Go! 1008 01:23:52,514 --> 01:23:54,433 And I'll be gone forever! 1009 01:23:54,516 --> 01:23:56,309 I won't even look back! 1010 01:24:41,396 --> 01:24:43,231 Welcome to Indianapolis. 1011 01:24:43,273 --> 01:24:45,734 Visitors to the fair will include prominent members... 1012 01:24:45,734 --> 01:24:48,320 of every branch of the national scientific community. 1013 01:24:48,445 --> 01:24:51,406 The fair will be open to the public over the next two days. 1014 01:24:51,406 --> 01:24:55,243 The following day, the judges will arrive to select the winners. 1015 01:24:56,286 --> 01:24:58,914 By timing the rocket's descent, we would be able to figure out... 1016 01:24:58,997 --> 01:25:01,416 just how high the rocket flew. 1017 01:25:04,336 --> 01:25:07,214 Would you like to see? This is a Delaval nozzle. 1018 01:25:07,255 --> 01:25:09,883 Do any of y'all know what a Delaval-- 1019 01:25:19,935 --> 01:25:23,021 The judges always go for the most expensive exhibits. 1020 01:25:23,105 --> 01:25:25,107 The guy with the biosphere's gonna win. 1021 01:25:25,190 --> 01:25:28,860 I don't think so. My money's on the kid with the rocket display. 1022 01:25:28,944 --> 01:25:31,863 Have you seen it yet? It's really cool. 1023 01:25:36,702 --> 01:25:39,454 Mr. Owens to the security office. 1024 01:25:50,966 --> 01:25:54,469 It's not like we got a lot of time. The judging is tomorrow. 1025 01:25:54,553 --> 01:25:56,471 There's nothin' we can do without Mr. Bolden. 1026 01:25:56,555 --> 01:25:58,849 He can't get anywhere near the machine shop. 1027 01:25:58,890 --> 01:26:02,811 They even took my picture of Dr. von Braun. 1028 01:26:02,894 --> 01:26:04,730 They stole everything. 1029 01:26:13,739 --> 01:26:16,324 Leon, what are you doing back here? 1030 01:26:16,408 --> 01:26:18,744 You know you shouldn't be seen back here. 1031 01:26:18,827 --> 01:26:21,079 I know, Elsie, but Homer's in trouble. 1032 01:26:36,094 --> 01:26:40,348 Elsie, I don't have the power to settle this strike. 1033 01:26:40,432 --> 01:26:43,518 The bosses listen to you. They'll do what you tell them. 1034 01:26:43,602 --> 01:26:46,021 I'm not gonna crawl on my belly... 1035 01:26:46,021 --> 01:26:49,483 in front of those miserable union rats. 1036 01:26:49,524 --> 01:26:52,611 Is that what this is about? Is this about your pride? 1037 01:26:52,694 --> 01:26:55,030 It's about what's best for Coalwood. 1038 01:26:56,114 --> 01:26:59,826 If this mine doesn't produce, then the town dies. 1039 01:26:59,868 --> 01:27:03,872 Think the union gives a good damn about that? 1040 01:27:03,997 --> 01:27:06,875 They're nothin' but a bunch of greedy sons of bitches-- 1041 01:27:06,875 --> 01:27:08,710 Shut up. Just shut up. 1042 01:27:08,752 --> 01:27:12,047 Homer once said you love the mine more than your own family. 1043 01:27:12,130 --> 01:27:14,716 I took up for you 'cause I didn't wanna believe it. 1044 01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:17,469 Homer has gotten a lot of help from the people in this town. 1045 01:27:17,552 --> 01:27:20,555 They've helped him build his rockets. They've watched him fly 'em. 1046 01:27:20,680 --> 01:27:22,224 But not you. 1047 01:27:22,307 --> 01:27:25,143 You never showed up, not even once. 1048 01:27:25,227 --> 01:27:29,898 I'm not asking you to believe in it, but he's your son, for God's sake. 1049 01:27:29,981 --> 01:27:32,984 And I am asking you to help him. 1050 01:27:33,068 --> 01:27:35,070 If you don't, I'll leave you. 1051 01:27:35,153 --> 01:27:38,073 I'll do whatever it takes to get away from here. 1052 01:27:38,073 --> 01:27:41,910 I'll live in a tree to get away from you. Don't think I won't. 1053 01:27:45,414 --> 01:27:47,082 Where would you go? 1054 01:27:49,751 --> 01:27:51,336 Myrtle Beach. 1055 01:28:05,058 --> 01:28:08,019 I guess we all know this isn't gonna fix things. 1056 01:28:08,145 --> 01:28:10,522 At least, not for long. 1057 01:28:10,605 --> 01:28:13,692 We know you did what you could for us. 1058 01:28:13,775 --> 01:28:15,277 - Jake. - Thanks. 1059 01:28:16,570 --> 01:28:18,613 - Leon. - Yes, John? 1060 01:28:20,699 --> 01:28:23,118 Don't you have some work to do? 1061 01:28:37,049 --> 01:28:39,885 It's packed and on its way. Be at the bus station, 8:00 a.m. 1062 01:28:39,968 --> 01:28:42,721 - How'd you-- - Your father. 1063 01:28:42,804 --> 01:28:45,724 - It was your father. - Give 'em hell, Homer! 1064 01:28:49,936 --> 01:28:51,438 Good luck, sweetie. 1065 01:28:51,480 --> 01:28:52,731 Bye. 1066 01:29:06,536 --> 01:29:08,121 Thanks, Dad. 1067 01:29:21,093 --> 01:29:22,928 When the rocket propellant burns... 1068 01:29:23,011 --> 01:29:25,430 it produces a river of gas which flows through... 1069 01:29:25,514 --> 01:29:27,432 the convergent section of the nozzle. 1070 01:29:27,516 --> 01:29:29,601 If the river continues through the nozzle... 1071 01:29:29,684 --> 01:29:31,770 but through the throat at less than sonic speed-- 1072 01:29:31,853 --> 01:29:34,022 that is to say, less than the speed of sound-- 1073 01:29:34,147 --> 01:29:37,317 it becomes compacted in the divergent section... 1074 01:29:37,359 --> 01:29:38,777 bound in turmoil-- 1075 01:29:38,902 --> 01:29:40,862 Lyle Wells and Jean Cooper... 1076 01:29:40,946 --> 01:29:43,448 Schrader High School, McMinnville, Oregon. 1077 01:30:02,384 --> 01:30:05,137 Now, ladies and gentlemen, for the big moment. 1078 01:30:06,972 --> 01:30:10,058 The Highest Scholastic Achievement Award for Science. 1079 01:30:10,142 --> 01:30:13,645 The National Science Fair first prize gold medal... 1080 01:30:13,729 --> 01:30:16,231 goes to Homer Hickam... 1081 01:30:16,314 --> 01:30:19,568 Quentin Wilson, Roy Lee Cook and Sherman O'Dell... 1082 01:30:19,609 --> 01:30:23,405 Big Creek High School, McDowell County, West Virginia. 1083 01:30:55,520 --> 01:30:58,857 Tom Webster of Virginia State College. I wanna talk to you about a scholarship. 1084 01:30:58,940 --> 01:31:00,776 Jack Palmer, Virginia Tech. 1085 01:31:00,859 --> 01:31:04,112 We got the best science program in the state. 1086 01:31:04,196 --> 01:31:06,114 Congratulations, son. Good luck to you. 1087 01:31:09,868 --> 01:31:12,954 - What did he say to you? - What did who say? 1088 01:31:13,038 --> 01:31:15,707 Von Braun. That was Wernher von Braun. 1089 01:31:15,791 --> 01:31:18,210 You just shook his hand. 1090 01:31:34,893 --> 01:31:37,562 - Homer, I'm so proud of you. - Thanks, Mom. 1091 01:31:39,481 --> 01:31:41,983 He's not here, hon. 1092 01:31:42,901 --> 01:31:44,653 Where's Miss Riley? 1093 01:32:01,586 --> 01:32:03,004 Hello, Miss Riley. 1094 01:32:06,091 --> 01:32:07,676 Hey, Homer. 1095 01:32:14,266 --> 01:32:15,684 You did it! 1096 01:32:15,684 --> 01:32:17,602 I knew you would. 1097 01:32:18,937 --> 01:32:21,690 The Rocket Boys are going to college. 1098 01:32:22,941 --> 01:32:25,610 We all got scholarships. 1099 01:32:26,778 --> 01:32:28,530 And you know what? 1100 01:32:29,698 --> 01:32:32,951 From now on, every school year... 1101 01:32:33,035 --> 01:32:35,787 I'm gonna brag to all my new students about... 1102 01:32:35,871 --> 01:32:39,541 how I taught Homer Hickam and the Rocket Boys. 1103 01:32:39,541 --> 01:32:41,877 Maybe one day... 1104 01:32:41,960 --> 01:32:46,381 one of them'll feel like they can do what y'all did. 1105 01:32:58,060 --> 01:33:00,979 You know, just, stuff like that takes time. 1106 01:33:06,651 --> 01:33:08,570 Will you let me out? 1107 01:33:15,494 --> 01:33:18,413 What are they doin', charging Olga for that? 1108 01:33:18,497 --> 01:33:20,082 It's gotta have a pump. 1109 01:33:20,165 --> 01:33:22,584 Hell, salvage something up here. 1110 01:33:22,584 --> 01:33:24,669 - Hey, Dad. - Hello, Homer. 1111 01:33:24,753 --> 01:33:28,590 I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate what you did for me. 1112 01:33:28,590 --> 01:33:32,511 I know it wasn't easy for you, so thank you. 1113 01:33:32,594 --> 01:33:36,431 We're shooting off our last rocket today at 5:00, so if you'd like to see it-- 1114 01:33:36,515 --> 01:33:39,434 I got a lot of work to do. 1115 01:33:39,434 --> 01:33:42,687 All right. I just thought I'd ask. 1116 01:33:45,107 --> 01:33:47,609 Hear you met your big hero. 1117 01:33:49,945 --> 01:33:52,197 Didn't even know it. 1118 01:33:59,121 --> 01:34:00,622 Look... 1119 01:34:00,622 --> 01:34:03,875 I know you and me don't exactly see eye to eye on certain things. 1120 01:34:03,959 --> 01:34:08,547 I mean, man, we don't see eye to eye on just about anything. 1121 01:34:08,630 --> 01:34:13,385 But I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. 1122 01:34:13,468 --> 01:34:16,304 And it's not because I'm so different from you either. 1123 01:34:16,388 --> 01:34:18,640 It's 'cause I'm the same. 1124 01:34:18,724 --> 01:34:22,144 I can be just as hardheaded and just as tough. 1125 01:34:23,478 --> 01:34:26,732 I only hope I can be as good a man as you are. 1126 01:34:29,568 --> 01:34:33,405 I mean, sure, Dr. von Braun's a great scientist... 1127 01:34:34,573 --> 01:34:36,491 but he isn't my hero. 1128 01:35:38,720 --> 01:35:40,639 It's our last rocket. 1129 01:35:40,722 --> 01:35:42,974 Yeah, let's do it. 1130 01:35:43,058 --> 01:35:46,144 Wire it up for me. I gotta do something. 1131 01:35:50,315 --> 01:35:52,234 Congratulations on winning the science fair. 1132 01:35:52,317 --> 01:35:53,735 - Thanks. - It's gotta be... 1133 01:35:53,819 --> 01:35:56,488 the most exciting thing that's ever happened around here. 1134 01:35:56,488 --> 01:35:59,991 I was thinking, Homer, if you've got some time-- 1135 01:35:59,991 --> 01:36:01,827 Excuse me, Dorothy. 1136 01:36:07,582 --> 01:36:09,501 - Good luck. - Thanks. 1137 01:36:11,253 --> 01:36:13,672 Hey, everybody, can we have your attention, please? 1138 01:36:13,755 --> 01:36:15,674 Come on, Homer. Let 'er fly. 1139 01:36:15,674 --> 01:36:19,511 We're gonna launch the rocket, but we'd like to say thank you first. 1140 01:36:19,594 --> 01:36:21,346 If it wasn't for y'all... 1141 01:36:21,430 --> 01:36:24,015 we'd never have gotten into any science fair. 1142 01:36:24,099 --> 01:36:26,935 We'd probably never have gotten past blowin' up my mom's fence. 1143 01:36:28,270 --> 01:36:31,773 But we did, because of your help and support. 1144 01:36:33,024 --> 01:36:35,444 And this is for Coalwood. 1145 01:36:40,449 --> 01:36:44,119 There are a few people who believed in us even before we did. 1146 01:36:44,202 --> 01:36:47,873 We'd like to dedicate this rocket to them. 1147 01:36:47,956 --> 01:36:50,542 To Ike Bykovsky. 1148 01:36:53,545 --> 01:36:56,048 To Mr. Bolden, who helped us so much. 1149 01:36:59,134 --> 01:37:02,054 To the person who first inspired us: 1150 01:37:02,137 --> 01:37:03,889 our teacher, Miss Riley. 1151 01:37:06,558 --> 01:37:09,978 And, finally, I'd like to dedicate this rocket... 1152 01:37:10,062 --> 01:37:12,230 to my mom and to... 1153 01:37:17,486 --> 01:37:18,987 my dad. 1154 01:37:33,668 --> 01:37:37,923 You know, it won't fly unless somebody pushes the button. 1155 01:37:41,093 --> 01:37:43,261 It's yours if you want it. 1156 01:38:06,535 --> 01:38:08,704 Ten. Nine. 1157 01:38:08,787 --> 01:38:11,206 Eight. Seven. Six. 1158 01:38:11,289 --> 01:38:13,959 Five. Four. Three. 1159 01:38:14,042 --> 01:38:16,044 Two. One. 1160 01:38:32,561 --> 01:38:34,563 Look at it go, Homer. 1161 01:38:34,646 --> 01:38:36,648 This one's gonna go for miles. 1137 01:40:16,100 --> 01:41:17,900 © anoXmous @ http://thepiratebay.sx/user/Zen_Bud