![]() ![]() After the long struggle and Sally Ride's breakthrough, Cleave arrives at her own piece of the story-a 1985 shuttle mission to practice building a space station, and a 1989 launch of Magellan, whose imagining of Venus reignited Cleave's former environmental interests and redirected to later scientific ventures ("Understanding a planet where greenhouse gases took over is important…. The GN format plays to great effect in the tale of American women who outperformed male candidates for space flight, unreeling frame after frame of 1962 Congressional hearings, sporadically broken by single frames of Soviets getting on with the show and selecting Valentina Tereshkova to be their own high-profile token in 1963. Mary Cleave serves as narrator and guide, bounding around a space shuttle in the opening pages as she briefly recaps her slim chances to join the space program in her early years, and segueing into the deeper, misogyny-riddled history of those women who first knocked at the door. ![]() ![]() The team that connected primatologists Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas with graphic novel readers (Primates, BCCB 7/13) returns to explore the careers of other women trailblazers in science-women who broke the gender barrier in space flight. ![]()
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