Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: First Second
Published: 02/04/2020
ISBN: 9781250760036
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.10w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/11/2019 pg. 94
Publishers Weekly 12/02/2019 pg. 87
Booklist 01/01/2020 pg. 57
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2020
School Library Journal 03/20/2020 pg. 1

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 507209 / Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier
Reading Level: 4.4 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 3