posted 05-20-2020 09:49 AM               

In the graphic novel Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier, Jim Ottaviani and illustrator Maris Wicks capture the great humor and incredible drive of Mary Cleave, Valentina Tereshkova, and the first women in space.

The U.S. may have put the first man on the moon, but it was the Soviet space program that made Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in space. It took years to catch up, but soon NASA's first female astronauts were racing past milestones of their own. The trail-blazing women of Group 9, NASA's first mixed gender class, had the challenging task of convincing the powers that be that a woman's place is in space, but they discovered that NASA had plenty to learn about how to make space travel possible for everyone.

• Hardcover: 176 pages
  
• First Second (February 4, 2020)
  
• ISBN-10: 1626728771
  
• ISBN-13: 978-1626728776

posted 05-20-2020 09:51 AM               

Live Chat: Pioneering Women in Aerospace

May 20, 2020 | 1:00pm EDT
Presented Online

Join us for an Air and Space Live Chat about pioneering women in aerospace featuring astronaut Mary Cleave and Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks, the author and illustrator of the graphic novel "Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier." Bring your questions about women in aviation and space who defied expectations and preconceptions.

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