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The wives were formally and informally drafted into a support network. After all, who else could understand their situation? After Elliot See died in a plane crash, John Young called Marilyn ...
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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 16, 2013 · (CBS News) What was happening back on Earth with the families of America's astronauts never got as much public attention as the astronauts' exploits up in space. But now the wives of those ...
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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 27, 2015 · People. 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 21, 2013 · The new book "Astronaut Wives Club" (Grand Central Publishing, June 2013) by Lily Koppel reveals what life was really like for spouses of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts.
