Leland Melvin’s 'Space Chasers' is aimed for kids 8 to 12. Fact checked by Sarah Scott Leland Melvin, the NFL wide receiver turned NASA astronaut, is inspiring kids everywhere to chase their dreams ...

Leland Melvin, a former NFL wide receiver and NASA astronaut, has co-authored a graphic novel called "Space Chasers" to ...

Leland Melvin, an astronaut, educator, former NFL player and now author, wants his new 'Space Chasers' series to show kids they can do anything, with the right people in their orbit.

But now the former astronaut, NFL player ... ones or bad ones,” Melvin tells PEOPLE. “This book was so important for me to be taking the kids through these exercises and saying you can ...