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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.
“[A] true (juicy) story. Gotta love non-fiction that feels like a beach read: Lily Koppel’s The Astronaut Wives Club chronicles the wives of 1960s astronauts. . . . Put down that mystery and pick up some history!” —Redbook
Jun 3, 2014 · If a husband was out testing a new experimental plane and didn't come home by five o'clock, almost all of the wives experienced the same waking nightmare, imagining the dark figure of the base chaplain ringing the doorbell, telling her she was now a widow.
- $17
- 9781.5B
- Grand Central Publishing
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Jan 8, 2015 · As Lily Koppel shows in her “pleasantly gossipy and often touching” group portrait of the dozens of women whose astronaut husbands pulled them into the national spotlight, an astronaut’s wife...
The Astronaut Wives Club. 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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- 2015-06-18
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Jun 14, 2013 · In 1959, the wives of the seven original American astronauts posed for the cover of Life magazine. The space program was in its infancy, with the astronauts’ names having been announced only a ...
Jun 11, 2013 · The Astronaut Wives Club is a fast and entertaining look at the lives of the wives of the first American astronauts. The Mercury Seven who included the wife of John Glenn the first man to orbit Earth.
