Question: What was the original name of the memoir by a former NASA engineer that  won the W.D. Weatherford Award in 1998?

Context articles: Zero Motorcycles
Fair and Tender Ladies
Storming Heaven (Giardina novel)
The Unquiet Earth
John Muratore
Neuseway Nature Center and Planetarium
October Sky (novel)
Wayne Hale
Homer Hickam
John Aaron

Zero Motorcycles Inc. is an American manufacturer of electric motorcycles. Formerly called Electricross, it was started in 2006 by Neal Saiki, a former NASA engineer, in Santa Cruz, California.
 The company is now located nearby in Scotts Valley.
Fair and Tender Ladies is a novel by Lee Smith published in 1988.
 It won the W.D. Weatherford Award that year.
Storming Heaven is Denise Giardina's second novel.
 It was published in 1987 and won the W.D. Weatherford Award that year.
 It is a fictionalized account of the labor strife in the coalfields of southern West Virginia, United States during 1920 and 1921.
The Unquiet Earth is Denise Giardina's third novel.
 It was published in 1992 and won the W.D. Weatherford Award that year.
John F. Muratore is an American engineer, former professor of Aviation Systems at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma, TN and current Director of Launch Operations for Launch Complex 39A at SpaceX at Cape Canaveral Fl.
 He is a former NASA engineer and Program Manager, well known in the aerospace circles for his gregarious and unconventional style.
The "Neuseway Nature Center and Planetarium" is a science center in Kinston, North Carolina.
 The facility includes 52 seat planetarium which also includes permanent exhibits focused on public health provided by Lenoir Memorial Hospital and an exhibit of space memorabilia donated by a former NASA engineer.
 A nature center includes exhibits of reptiles, fish and small mammals native to the area.
October Sky (originally published as Rocket Boys) is the first memoir in a series of three, by Homer Hickam, Jr. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a coal mining town.
 It won the W.D. Weatherford Award in 1998, the year of its release.
 Today, it is one of the most often picked community/library reads in the United States.
 It is also studied in many school systems around the world.
 "October Sky" was followed by "The Coalwood Way" (2000) and "Sky of Stone" (2002).
N. Wayne Hale Jr. (born July 5, 1954) is a former NASA engineer.
 Previously a flight director and space shuttle program manager, Hale served as NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Strategic Partnerships prior to his retirement on July 31, 2010.
Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer.
 His memoir "Rocket Boys" was a "New York Times" Best Seller and was the basis for the 1999 film "October Sky".
 Hickam has also written a number of best-selling memoirs and novels including the "Josh Thurlow" historical fiction novels.
 His books have been translated into many languages.
John W. Aaron (born 1943) is a former NASA engineer and was a flight controller during the Apollo program.
 He is widely credited with saving the Apollo 12 mission when it was struck by lightning soon after launch, and also played an important role during the Apollo 13 crisis.