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jess_mango's review against another edition
4.0
Non-fiction graphic novel about the first women in space. I read about some of the women featured in this years ago for a book club pick: [b:The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight|444483|The Mercury 13 The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight|Martha Ackmann|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320502315l/444483._SY75_.jpg|433215].
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bookishly_laura9813's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
jwinchell's review against another edition
5.0
It’s awesome to learn about space and it’s awesome to learn about women in space, so this book was a totally awesome experience. I love everything Ottaviani and Wicks have done and this was a masterful look at the first women in space. I liked learning about Russian Valentina Tereshkova and American Mary Cleave. Highly recommended to those who like to learn things from their graphic literature.
hywar's review against another edition
3.0
This was interesting look at the battle women had to become astronauts, but I thought it was a little too technical for most of my students. The Cyrillic font used for the Russian dialogue was also really hard to read - I showed it to some of my students to get their input on it and they found it distracting and didn't like it at all.
kylauren1723's review against another edition
4.0
A great intro to the women of NASA! Highly recommend for middle school students
rkiladitis's review against another edition
5.0
Meet the first women to travel into space in this nonfiction graphic novel that has big appeal for Science Comics fans. Astronaut Dr. Mary Cleave navigates readers through the history of women and space travel, starting with the Soviet space program that made Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in space, and illustrates the long road American women had to take to get Group 9, NASA'S first mixed-gender class, to the stars.
The most frustrating thing about Astronauts is reading how seemingly determined the U.S. government was to keep women out of space. The graphic novel tells multiple stories from different points of view; the Mercury 13 and Women in Space Program both ended up going nowhere, while the Soviet Union focused on sending just one woman - Tereshkova - into space. (And she didn't even tell her mother before she went.) It's disheartening to read that science journalists imagined conversations between women - female scientists - and Mission Control consisting of, "this little thingamabob has jiggled off the gizmo". Even when NASA got it together and began recruiting women for the space program for real this time, their concerns about dress codes and complete ignorance of basic physiology left me frustrated and even more determined to get my STEM/STEAM programming firmly entrenched here at my library. The second half of the book, focusing more on Mary Cleave's space shuttle missions and NASA training, are a welcome relief. There are some great and hilarious anecdotes throughout, and Mary Cleave's love for space exploration and science comes through, making me hopeful that this book will inspire many, many kids. There are references, a bibliography, and working sketches.
The most frustrating thing about Astronauts is reading how seemingly determined the U.S. government was to keep women out of space. The graphic novel tells multiple stories from different points of view; the Mercury 13 and Women in Space Program both ended up going nowhere, while the Soviet Union focused on sending just one woman - Tereshkova - into space. (And she didn't even tell her mother before she went.) It's disheartening to read that science journalists imagined conversations between women - female scientists - and Mission Control consisting of, "this little thingamabob has jiggled off the gizmo". Even when NASA got it together and began recruiting women for the space program for real this time, their concerns about dress codes and complete ignorance of basic physiology left me frustrated and even more determined to get my STEM/STEAM programming firmly entrenched here at my library. The second half of the book, focusing more on Mary Cleave's space shuttle missions and NASA training, are a welcome relief. There are some great and hilarious anecdotes throughout, and Mary Cleave's love for space exploration and science comes through, making me hopeful that this book will inspire many, many kids. There are references, a bibliography, and working sketches.
thenextgenlibrarian's review against another edition
4.0
Beautiful nonfiction graphic novel about space, particularly the history of it and how far women have come in space. Great timing as I read it three days before Space X launches.
teaoles's review against another edition
4.0
The font choice with all of the N’s written backwards makes it hard to read the words!