The 1999 movie October Sky, is the true story of Homer Hickam, Jr., who rose from a gloomy West Virginia coal mining town with not much hope of a future to become a NASA engineer. Homer's mind and imagination is completely captured by the launch of Sputnik. All of a sudden he is fascinated by rockets. There's a scene early on in the movie when Homer is thinking about talking to Quentin, the school nerd and his best friend, Roy Lee says: "You can't be seen with him Homer. He's a weirdo."

As Homer gets up to go talk to Quentin, Roy hollers: "Go ahead but you can kiss your social life goodbye"

Homer's best friend, Roy, was just trying to warn him by talking to Quentin, Homer would be ruining his reputation. But Homer ignored the warning because he had a dream; he wanted to build a rocket.…