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- But Lily Koppel, author of The Astronaut Wives Club, says the women's lives were not always picture perfect at home. She says that despite having very different personalities and backgrounds the wives formed a sisterhood to help them cope with the media scrutiny as well as the fear their husbands might be killed on a mission.
www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-22803974Astronaut Wives: The women behind the first Nasa astronauts - BBC
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The Astronaut Wives Club was an informal support group of women, sometimes called Astrowives, whose husbands were members of the Mercury 7 group of astronauts. The group included Annie Glenn, Betty Grissom, Louise Shepard, Trudy Cooper, Marge Slayton, Rene Carpenter, and Jo Schirra.
Jun 13, 2013 · Astronaut Wives: The women behind the first Nasa astronauts - BBC News. In 1959, when Nasa selected the seven astronauts they hoped would help the US win the Cold War space race, their wives were...
But NASA was different. Wives of astronauts had to maintain that same composure for a worldwide audience at some of the most stressful moments in their lives.
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Janet Shearon married Neil Armstrong. Joan Archer became the wife of Buzz Aldrin. And Pat Finnegan tied the knot with Micheal Collins. None of these women, though, knew that they were marrying...
Jul 24, 2020 · Rene Carpenter, the last surviving member of the much-glorified cohort of Mercury 7 astronauts and their wives, whom Tom Wolfe immortalized in his best-selling 1979 book “The Right Stuff,” died...
Jun 9, 2013 · The weekend before the 1991 reunion of the Astronaut’s Wives Club, Pat committed suicide. The wives viewed her as the final fatality of the NASA’s space program.
Jun 27, 2015 · As of this posting (June 27, 2015), Rene Carpenter, Annie Glenn and Betty Grissom are the last three of the original seven Mercury astronaut wives still alive. Rene Carpenter at a post-flight press conference for the Mercury-Atlas 7 mission at Cape Canaveral on May 27, 1962.
