Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier — First Second Books
Issue: #1
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 appearances: John Young, Bryan D. O'Connor, Jerry L. Ross, Brewster H. Shaw, Guion Bluford, David M. Walker, Charles D. Walker, Frederick Hauck, Ellison Onizuka, Mark C. Lee, Jane Briggs Hart, John M. Fabian, Norman Thagard, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Robert Crippen, Judith Resnik, Shannon Lucid, Rodolfo Neri Vela, Ronald J. Grabe, Michael Coats, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Alan Bean, Ronald McNair, Mike Mullane, Sherwood C. Spring, Robert A. Parker, Mary L. Cleave
Creators: Jim Ottaviani, Maris Wicks
Characters: John Glenn, Lyndon Johnson, Yuri Gagarin, Anna Lee Fisher, Kathryn D. Sullivan, John Young, Bryan D. O'Connor, Jerry L. Ross, Brewster H. Shaw, Gordon Cooper, Guion Bluford, Gus Grissom, David M. Walker, Charles D. Walker, Frederick Hauck, Deke Slayton, Ellison Onizuka, Jerrie Cobb, Mark C. Lee, Nichelle Nichols