Space Chasers, written by Leland Melvin and Joe Caramagna and illustrated by Alison Acton, will hit shelves on Feb. 4 from First Second and is available for preorder now, wherever books are sold.

Leland Melvin is an engineer, educator, author, and former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver. After twenty-four years with NASA as a researcher, an astronaut, and a senior executive service leader, ...

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It follows a group of brilliant kids — trained by Melvin himself as part of a NASA program for middle schoolers — who find themselves in trouble in outer space and have to figure out how to ...

titled Space Chasers, Melvin sets out to tell the story of kids who have been tasked with a special mission. RELATED: Jubilee goes out of this world with local Astronaut and NFL player Leland ...

Leland Melvin is a former NASA astronaut and the author of Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances (Amistad, 2017). He’s based in Lynchburg, Virginia. Astronaut Leland ...

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