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— Susan Borman, wife of Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman. Faith and Pragmatism. The women who married fighter pilots or test pilots understood that their lives could be shattered in an instant.
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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 .
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Jun 13, 2013 · Astronaut Wives: The women behind the first Nasa astronauts. In 1959, when Nasa selected the seven astronauts they hoped would help the US win the Cold War space race, their wives were also...
Jun 16, 2013 · The men of NASA's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs were national heroes -- a few even became icons. But they were husbands, too -- most of them fathers -- and the wives who stayed behind...
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Jul 19, 2019 · NASA astronaut Alan Bean with wife Sue and children, Amy and Clay. ... A group of astronaut wives joins Barbara Cernan to watch the 1966 Gemini IX launch of her husband, Gene Cernan, and astronaut ...
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Jun 12, 2013 · The Astronaut Wives Club. A True Story. By Lily Koppel. Purchase. So on April 9, 1959, the U.S. kicked off its own space age by introducing the country to its first astronauts, known as the...
Jun 7, 2013 · Middle row: Annie Glenn, Rene Carpenter, Marjorie Slayton. Bottom row: Trudy Cooper, Betty Grissom. The Mercury Seven astronauts had a rendezvous with destiny, and it turns out their wives did...
