http://www.scholarsavenue.org/2008/03/19/blast-off-for-the-october-sky-an-interview-with-homer-hickam/ IIT Kharagpur's Campus Newspaper - fortnightly yours, forthrightly yours Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:42:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.scholarsavenue.org/2008/03/19/blast-off-for-the-october-sky-an-interview-with-homer-hickam/comment-page-1/#comment-7626 Ram Radhakrishnan Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:22:42 +0000 http://209.97.214.175/~scholars/wordpress/?p=849#comment-7626 This was great! I was Wiki-ing HH looking for his other books when I saw IIT KGP at the bottom, and that's how I discovered thsi article by you. I am a grad of IIT KGP from '66, and in fact me and a couple of others ( a rare co-operative effort of RK & Nehru Hall residents! ) did in fact attempt to build and launch a few rockets using the Tubdi solid rocket fuel then in use during Diwali time in Calcutta! This was great! I was Wiki-ing HH looking for his other books when I saw IIT KGP at the bottom, and that’s how I discovered thsi article by you.
I am a grad of IIT KGP from ’66, and in fact me and a couple of others ( a rare co-operative effort of RK & Nehru Hall residents! ) did in fact attempt to build and launch a few rockets using the Tubdi solid rocket fuel then in use during Diwali time in Calcutta!

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