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NASA’s New Graphic Novel, First Woman Issue 2, Available Now 

Female characters, Commander Callie Rodriguez, left, and astronaut Meshaya Billy, right, stand next to each other in spacesuits.
Commander Callie Rodriguez and astronaut Meshaya Billy from NASA’s First Woman graphic novel.  
Credit: NASA

Fictional astronaut Callie Rodriguez continues exploring space as the first woman to walk on the Moon in a new issue of NASA’s First Woman graphic novel series. Now available digitally in English and Spanish, “First Woman: Expanding Our Universe,” follows Callie and her crewmates as they work together to explore the unknown, make scientific discoveries, and accomplish their mission objectives.  

 This second issue of the graphic novel series features a diverse crew of astronauts on the Moon’s surface who learn and grow as a team, navigate the unexpected, and conduct experiments and technology demonstrations for the benefit of humanity.  

 Through the First Woman series, NASA is inspiring the next generation of explorers – the Artemis Generation – as it works in real life to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon under the Artemis program

 When readers last met Callie, she and her robot RT were sheltering inside of a lunar lava tunnel. Find out what happens next by visiting the revamped  First Woman  website, which includes a new Spanish-language option, and the agency’s updated  First Woman app  available for download on  Android and  iOS