October Sky Page #2

[Girl Giggling]

No, ma'am.

I got my eye on you, boy.

Now who can tell me

why Sputnik is so important?

[Man]

We ought to just shoot

the damn thing down.

It's got one of them

little spy cameras in it.

It takes pictures of every one

of our missile bases.

This country'd better get on

the ball before it's too late.

All I know is this Sputnik

had better show up soon.

I'm gettin' a crick

in my neck.

[Roy Lee]

All right. What you need to do

is take her to the movies.

Somethin'scary, like

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.

Then you take your arm

and put it up round the back

of her chair, like so.

Now when it gets real scary,

and she ain't payin' attention

to nothin' but the movie,

you sort of let your arm sort

of slide on down her shoulder,

real nice and slow

and easy...

until...

[Laughs]

Hey! Hey!

I see it!

Right there!

Where? Where?

[Chattering]

[Woman]

You seein'things, Carl?

I see it.

Where do you see it?

I see it.

It's right there.

[Chattering Continues]

[Whispering]

Wow.

[Man] Son of b*tches

gonna be droppin'bombs

on us from up there.

Don't know why they'd drop

a bomb on this place.

Be a heck of a waste

of a bomb.

The first game against Welch...

that's the one that's

gonna draw the scouts.

Yeah. Welch knows it too.

They're gonna be coming

after us.

Well, y'all be careful, Jim.

Last year, those two boys from

Welch got their arms broken.

Well, they started it.

[Laughing]

It don't matter much

who started it.

I don't call that football.

You don't worry about Jim.

Ain't nobody on the Welch team

that can catch him.

I wish the scouts could've seen

that first game with Bluefield.

I'm gonna build a rocket.

Like Sputnik.

Well, I'm not sayin' it's gonna

go up in space or anything,

but I'm gonna do it.

I'm gonna build a rocket.

[Chuckles]

Well, just don't

blow yourself up.

[Laughing]

More eggs, anybody?

Nice rocket, Homer.

How high do you think

it will fly?

Well, I got it packed with

the powder from 30 sky rockets.

Three, four miles.

You ready?

Yeah.

Yeah.

[All]

Ten, nine...

Eight, seven, six...

Should we get behind somethin'?

[Grunting]

[Gasps]

Wh-What happened?

- [Homer]

My rocket blew up.

- Are you okay?

- I guess.

- My heart's poundin'.

I thought the mine blew up.

Oh, Homer.

I waited six months for

the company carpenter to get

around puttin' up that fence.

Didn't I tell you

not to blow yourself up?

Yes, ma'am.

Then let's not.

[Sighs]

[Woman] Elsie.

[Elsie]

It's all right, Ms. Fields.!

It's all right.

[Homer's Voice]

Dear Dr. Von Braun,

[TV Announcer]

Six, five, four, three...

My name is Homer Hickam.

Two, one...

I'm 17 and I live in a small

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