Astronauts in Trouble is the title of a series of comic books and graphic novels created by Larry Young.

Charlie Adlard

Charlie Adlard

Charles "Charlie" Adlard is a British comic book artist and penciller.He is best known for providing art on The Walking Dead and Savage.-Biography:...

 is the artist for the bulk of the stories, with Matthew Dow Smith

Matthew Dow Smith

Matthew Dow Smith is an American comic book artist.- Bibliography :* Astronauts in Trouble: Live From the Moon #1 and #2* The Book of Fate #11* Day of Judgment #1-5...

 providing the artwork for early chapters, and Kieron Dwyer

Kieron Dwyer

Kieron Dwyer is an American comic book artist and penciller.-Biography:Dwyer is best known for his work on Captain America vol. 1 , Danger Unlimited , Action Comics , Avengers Kieron Dwyer (born March 6, 1967) is an American comic book artist and penciller.-Biography:Dwyer is best known for his...

, Steven Weissman

Steven Weissman

Steven Weissman is an award-winning alternative cartoonist best known for his offbeat and bizarre explorations of childhood friendships...

, Darick Robertson

Darick Robertson

Darick W. Robertson is an American artist best known for his work as a comic book illustrator. Highly prolific, Robertson has illustrated hundreds of comics in his twenty plus years in the industry. His body of work ranges from science fiction characters of his own creation to headlining on...

, Brian Wood, Scott Johnson, John Heebink, and Matt Hollingsworth contributing.

Astronauts in Trouble is also the AiT in publisher name AiT/Planet Lar

AiT/Planet Lar

AiT/Planet Lar is an American comic book publishing company based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1999 by Larry Young and Mimi Rosenheim...

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Astronauts in Trouble: Live From the Moon

The first story arc is set in 2019, 50 years after the first Moon

Moon

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 landing. Eccentric millionaire Ishmael Hayes has decided to launch his own mission to return to the moon, and claim it as his own property. To ensure that he receives the right amount of publicity, Hayes brings along the Channel 7 news crew to film the mission. Along the way Hayes must deal with eco-terrorists, and a nuclear bomb wielding Mafia

Mafia

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The stories originally appeared in the five issue limited series Astronauts in Trouble: Live From the Moon (March - July 1999), and published by Gun Dog Comics. They were reprinted in the 1999 trade paperback Astronauts in Trouble: Live From the Moon (ISBN 978-0967684710).

Astronauts in Trouble: One Shot, One Beer

Astronauts in Trouble: One Shot, One Beer (ISBN 978-0967684758) is an original graphic novel published in trade paperback form in 2000. Ten years after the events of Live From the Moon, the Moon is the home to Cool Ed's, the only bar for 240,000 miles. Prospectors, settlers, and others gather there to tell stories and swaps lies.

Astronauts in Trouble: Space: 1959

In 1959, Colonel Lloyd Macadam's top-secret moon-shot program in Peru

Peru

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 is discovered when the Channel Seven news team investigates the death of a janitor. The space launch

Space launch

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is put into jeopardy when a Russian spy commandeers the rocket and Colonel Macadam must choose between his country and his life.

The story originally appeared in the three issue limited series Astronauts in Trouble: Space: 1959 (January - March 2000). They were collected in the 2000 trade paperback Astronauts in Trouble: Space: 1959 (ISBN 978-0967684734).

Astronauts in Trouble: Master Flight Plan

This is an omnibus edition published in 2003 (ISBN 978-1932051124) containing Live From the Moon, One Shot, One Beer, Space: 1959, and the one-shot Astronauts in Trouble: Cool Ed's, originally published in September 1999.

The Making of Astronauts in Trouble

This book (ISBN 978-0967684703 ) is not part of the series, but is instead a behind the scenes look at the development of the title. The book covers the original development of the series, and includes preliminary sketches, draft scripts, and a preview comic published before the first issue.