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- The 10-episode series focuses on the seven wives of the Mercury Program astronauts between 1959 and 1963. It is based on the book by Lily Koppel and written by Stephanie Savage (Gossip Girl). As a result of the Space mission, these women, with help from the media, were converted from military wives to American royalty overnight.
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The Astronaut Wives Club is a 2015 American period drama television series developed by Stephanie Savage for ABC. It is based on Lily Koppel's 2013 book of the same name. [2] The series tells the story of the wives of the Mercury Seven – America's first group of astronauts – who together formed the Astronaut Wives Club.
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.
Astronaut GroupFirst SpouseAstronautFate Of MarriageSeparated 1968; Divorced 1972Trudy Olson (1947)Divorced 1970Annie Castor (1943)Married until his death in 2016Betty Moore (1945)Married until his death in the 1967 ...Jul 6, 2015 · Enter Lily Koppel’s The Astronaut Wives Club, the true story of the spouses of America’s Mercury Seven, a group of astronauts selected by NASA in 1959 to head a number of new space missions.
With JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Yvonne Strahovski, Dominique McElligott, Odette Annable. Based on Lily Koppel's best-selling titular novel, which tells the real story of the women who stood beside some of the biggest heroes in American history during the height of the space race.
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Jun 27, 2015 · Meet the REAL Astronaut Wives Club. RocketSTEM June 27, 2015. Group shot of Mercury Seven astronaut wives taken in 1963 at a Ladies Auxiliary event in Washington, D.C. From left are: Carpenter, Cooper, Glenn, Grissom, Schirra, Shepard and Slayton. Credit: NASA via Retro Space Images.
Jun 20, 2015 · It is based on the book by Lily Koppel and written by Stephanie Savage (Gossip Girl). As a result of the Space mission, these women, with help from the media, were converted from military...
Jun 12, 2013 · On April 9,1959, the U.S. introduced its first astronauts, and then launched their wives into the spotlight. In The Astronaut Wives Club, Lily Koppel looks at how seven women coped with the...
