"Prolific STEM writer Slade spotlights Mary Sherman Morgan (1921-2004) and her role in the launch of the US's first successful satellite. Comport's lively illustrations--rendered using color pencil, traditional collage, digital collage, and digital paint--combine dramatic perspectives, facsimiles of space-race ephemera, and collaged STEM equations, enhancing Slade's spry narrative. A respectful, important tribute to an instrumental rocket scientist." -- Kirkus Reviews "Slade.follows noted chemist Morgan from her North Dakota childhood working on the family farm to the triumph of watching the rocket that launched the U.S.'s first satellite into Earth's orbit--using fuel she developed--with many obstacles and challenges along the way. Comport's.

illustrations.are effective in showing the discrimination Morgan faced as a young female chemist in the 1940s, her isolation surrounded by men, and the wonderment of her accomplishments.An engaging introduction to one woman's mostly unheralded contributions to American space flight." -- The Horn Book.