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.