October Sky

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…With his support from his friends, classmates, his teacher, and even his family, he is destined to win the national science fair by learning calculus, advanced trigonometry, and even physics by himself, in order to do what he wants to do the most- work with rockets. At odds with his father, determined to surpass himself and inspired by the dawn of the space age, he leaves on a visionary mission that changes his life forever.