The Mars Challenge: The Past, Present, and Future of Human Spaceflight OGN
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| Writer | Benjamin A. Wilgus |
| Artist | Wyeth Yates |
| Cover Price | $17.72 |
Travel to deep space and back again with The Mars Challenge, a nonfiction graphic novel for teens about the science and logistics of a manned mission to Mars.
Nadia is a teen with a dream: to be the first woman on Mars. But to get there, she's got to learn all she can about the science of spaceflight. It's a good thing her friend Eleanor is an Attitude Determination and Control Officer―basically, she pilots the International Space Station!
Eleanor takes Nadia on a conceptual journey through an entire crewed mission to Mars, and explains every challenge that must be overcome along the way; from escaping Earth's
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The Graphic Library - Sara Campbell
Apr 13, 2020This is probably one of the most thorough telling of the exact problems stopping us from launching a manned mission to Mars. I learned an incredible amount from this title, and I have a passable knowledge of space flight. However, this was difficult to get through in one sitting because of the density of information. Do not approach this as a normal graphic novel that is consumed all at once. The chapters are broken up into specifics problems and it is highly advised to actually pause for a day or two at each chapter and let your brain digest the information from the previous chapter. It would also be more engaging if it wasn’t just Nadia and Eleanor talking. A lot of concepts are “told” instead of “shown”. The second half of the book has more trips and hands-on things for the characters to do, but I could have used a lot more illustration on the concepts being discussed and less focus on the faces of the characters. The art is less detailed than I would have liked for complicat Read Full Review
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