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The Astronaut Wives Club

Lily Koppel (Goodreads Author),

Orlagh Cassidy (Narrator )

3.31 · Rating details · 25,747 ratings · 3,752 reviews

In a thoroughly researched page-turner that transports readers back to the beginnings of our space race, bestselling author Lily Koppel reveals for the first time the stories and secrets of America's unsung heroes-the wives of our original astronauts.

As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smile ...more

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Jul 21, 2013 Nick Stewart rated it it was ok · review of another edition

And then this happened. And then this other thing happened. Oh, and I almost forgot to tell you about the time this happened. I should've had this book over for a cup of coffee and a chat. ...more

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Jun 25, 2013 Lisa of Hopewell rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2013

Gave up on this mess of a book--didn't finish it.
Chapter 1 reads like she watched the movie the "Right Stuff" and that's about it. It is written in that trendy, annoying new, "sassy"/hip/disrespectful tone that is starting to ruin non-fiction reading. Like aging Valley Girl does Master's thesis. Hope it gets better. The women themselves ARE interesting, just the style of writing that grates. Astro-everything is really wearing me down. The story itself IS interesting. But it's like Jr. High Schoo ...more

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Sep 09, 2013 Nicholas rated it did not like it · review of another edition

This is among the most artlessly written books I have read in ages, and easily ranks as the worst book I've read in 2013. It is glib and confusing and makes no effort to actually tell a story. It just recounts and recounts and recounts, but because there is an endless cast of characters and Koppel makes no effort to help you get to know at least a select few of the wives, it is almost impossible to care about any of the wives, even when their husbands die in enormous fiery explosions. Indeed, ha ...more

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Oct 10, 2013 Dana Stabenow added it · review of another edition

Shelves: book-club

There is a great story to be told about the wives of our first astronauts. This isn't it.

This was my book's club's selection for this month, and we are as one in wondering where Koppel got her citations, because there are no foot- or endnotes, nor is there any bibliography. It reads like the Life magazine stories cribbed together with a few original quotations from the wives themselves, most of which are unattributed by name or source. The writing is exhaustingly repetitive and painfully ungramm ...more

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Jul 06, 2013 Marcie rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: NO ONE

Shelves: non-fiction

After seeing the episode of Tom Hanks' "From the Earth to the Moon" devoted to the astronaut's wives, I was very anxious to read this book. What a screaming disaster! It reads like it was written by a high school girl working on a book report. No character development, random anecdotes relating to nothing, no continuity and worst of all, made the wives sound like a bunch of mannequins. None of these women exist outside of their husbands and all are written as 1950s stereotypes - sexist to say th ...more

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Nov 25, 2014 Barbara rated it really liked it · review of another edition

The original Mercury 7 astronauts

When the U.S. space program went into high gear in 1959 the original Mercury 7 astronauts were a sensation. People wanted to know about them and their families - and their lives were avidly followed by the public. Life Magazine paid for exclusive access to the 'astrofamilies' and articles and photos were published to accompany each space flight.

In time, the wives formed the 'Astronauts Wives Club' - for friendship, advice, help, and support during stressful time ...more

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Aug 10, 2013 Casey rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: your-book-sucked, knowledge-is-good, intergalactic-planetary, book-club-pick

How to write a book about the space program that's far less compelling than the one Tom Wolfe wrote on the same subject, in five easy steps.

1) First, make sure to eliminate everything that's interesting about space, and the politics involved in exploring it. The space race was an insane endeavor. Astronauts faced death when they got in those capsules; some of them actually died. Americans became obsessed with nationalist astro-gazing, but in the background buzzed the constant (and not unsubstant ...more

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Aug 25, 2013 LillyBooks rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I admit I knew basically nothing about the wives of the astronauts from the 1960s and early 1970s, so this book was educational. It's also an easy, pleasant enough read. The main problem with this book is the lack of, no pun intended, gravity. Stories are recited in quick succession with little or no insight in the social or physiological causes. It just doesn't seem very intelligent. There are certainly no words that a fifth grader wouldn't know and the sentence structures are very basic and re ...more

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Jul 02, 2013 Penny McGill rated it it was ok · review of another edition

This is either a poorly written book or a poorly edited book. Maybe both? I was very keen to read this book and was thrilled to think of the interview she must have been granted. Couldn't believe how fun it would be to learn about those years because I have always thought it must have been a wonderful time to live through. All of those amazing scientific discoveries and developments and constant excitement on news shows and in the newspaper, you can see how someone like Chris Hadfield would have ...more

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Jun 10, 2013 Judy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: bio-memoir, non-fiction, 2013-reads, 2013-pub-date

Ever wonder what it would be like to stand in the shoes of an astronaut's wife? If you grew up in the 60s and 70s, I can almost guarantee that you did! Well, you have your opportunity with The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story.

The book wends its way through the years of lift-offs, landings and explosions with an emphasis on the wives' friendship and support of one another. The book's main focus is the Mercury 7 wives since they began it all. "Mother" Marge Slayton is attributed with beginning t ...more

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Aug 31, 2013 Asho rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-but-do-not-own

The minute I heard Lily Koppel give an interview about this book on NPR I added my name to the queue for it at the library. I don't even think the book had actually been released yet; that's how excited I was to get my hands on this book. Despite the fact that the idea of space travel terrifies me beyond all reason, I'm fascinated by astronauts and the entire cultural milieu surrounding the space race of the 1960s. Plus I'm all for any "rah-rah feminism, let's tell the unheard story of the women The minute I heard Lily Koppel give an interview about this book on NPR I added my name to the queue for it at the library. I don't even think the book had actually been released yet; that's how excited I was to get my hands on this book. Despite the fact that the idea of space travel terrifies me beyond all reason, I'm fascinated by astronauts and the entire cultural milieu surrounding the space race of the 1960s. Plus I'm all for any "rah-rah feminism, let's tell the unheard story of the women behind the men" project.
Sadly, it turns out my hopes for this book were a bit too high. Let me preface my criticism by saying that I did enjoy reading this book. I enjoyed it so much, in fact, that I immediately went to recommend it to my mother, only to see on Goodreads that she had already read it! :-) I learned a ton of fascinating tidbits about the space program and the astronauts. I drove my husband crazy during the two days I was reading this with all of my, "Hey, wanna know ANOTHER interesting thing about NASA?" questions. My assessment of whether a non-fiction book has been worth my time is if it inspires me to learn more about the subject, and after reading this I was inspired to re-watch Apollo 13, add Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff to my to-read list, and spend more time than I'd like to admit googling info about the various moon missions. So in that sense, this book was a welcome read.
The thing is, that's pretty much all this book boils down to: tidbits of information and often-disjointed anecdotes about the astronauts' wives. It read to me as if Koppel did a single hour-long interview with each wife who would agree to it and used that subject matter plus the Life magazine archives to put this book together. I was expecting and hoping for something more in-depth and meaty. Putting on my historian hat for a second, let me address the book's main issues:
-The cast is much too large. I understand Koppel's dilemma: each wife had her own very distinct background, personality, marriage, and relationship with NASA and the media. If I were doing this project, it would have killed me to leave any wife out. The problem is, by trying to include all of the wives, Koppel didn't give any of them their due. To cram a divorce or adjustment to widowhood into a matter of paragraphs just doesn't do justice to the story that I know is there (and some wives' major life events received even less page space than that, just mere sentences before Koppel was onto another topic). All (or almost all) of these women were/are mothers, and yet almost nothing was written about their parenting experiences in this extremely unique situation. Since this is supposedly the wives' story, I found it bizarre that so little was mentioned about how they felt about parenting under the media microscope, something that was surely a huge part of the lives of these women. I think this book would have been much more compelling if Koppel had focused only on the Mercury wives, or had perhaps picked a couple of women to be the focal point of her history of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs and let the rest of the story revolve around them. As it is, I feel like all this book did was whet my appetite to know more about each wife, and it's disappointing to know that I can't now pick up a complete biography of Jo Schirra, or Betty Grissom, or Marge Slayton, or any of the others.

-The author's tone was strangely catty at times in a way that I think was intended to present the Astronaut Wives Club as a sort of "Original Real Housewives" but almost felt like a judgment of her subjects. I would have preferred a more objective tone.

-There were random, disjointed attempts to throw in a bit of historical context about the women's movement and the astronaut wives' relationship to that movement. That would have been a fascinating thread to weave through this story, but while Koppel made attempts to throw it in once in a while, it wasn't developed at all. It was so under-developed, in fact, that the references to The Feminine Mystique, etc., felt like they didn't belong in this book at all.

Overall, the concept behind this book is great, and it was a fun, quick read, but it's "underbaked" in terms of substance and execution.
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Jun 30, 2013 Grey rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I have longed for someone to write a book about the wives of the first astronauts. While Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer have told rich, descriptive tales of the space program, this book, by comparison, is a disappointing and shallow treatment of the wives' experiences -- told in an uneven and disjointed way.

The good news is that it's a fast read because there is no substantive depth to any of the stories, and you can feed on some trivia munchies along the way. (I didn't know that John Glenn had th ...more

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Jul 08, 2013 Clare rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

About time and then some that this story was written! As one of the wives put it, "If you think going to the moon is tough, try staying home". The book includes the stories of the 8 astonauts who died during the space race. A very good read. ...more

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Jul 22, 2013 JanB rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook

This was a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the space program of the 60’s, told from the perspective of the “astrowives”, the women behind the men. I was a child in the 60’s, too young to realize the astronauts were such rock stars. The celebrity status of the Mercury Seven included the wives, and their every move was recorded by the ever-present media. They were invited to the White House, featured on the cover of Life magazine, numerous articles were written about them, and they were give ...more

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Aug 12, 2013 Katy Compton rated it liked it · review of another edition

I was disappointed with this book, what could have been an awesome story about courageous women was merely eh. The author reports what happened, but never goes further. Even when talking about large missions she really just scratches the surface of the stories. At some points it's like she's just dumping info onto the page. There were paragraphs with random sentences that had nothing to do with the paragraph - kind of an 'oh, by the way...' Then not touched on again. It became frustrating that s ...more

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Jul 28, 2020 Erin rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020-non-fic, written-by-women, tv-series, politics, the-kennedy-s, july-2020

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.
The Gemini Nine that included the wife of Neil Armstrong the first man to walk on the Moon.
The Apollo Fourteen which included the wife of Buzz Aldrin the second man on the Moon.

Its crazy to read about how famous these families were in the 1960's. These astronauts were treated like rock stars and th ...more

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Jul 08, 2013 Snap rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, read-in-2013

I was growing up during the time of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo flights. It was a time of women in shirtwaist dresses, pearls, hats and gloves. A small box called a television with a picture in black and white -- we thought we'd hit the big time when "color" came in. Women stayed home and took care of the kids and the men went out to work. In this case -- the men went to the stars and back. The first astronauts were all military. The wives were used to their husbands being away from home for ...more

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Dec 16, 2016 Clif Hostetler rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: history

This book provides a history of the early days of the American manned space program told from the perspective of the wives of the astronauts. This is a span of time beginning with Project Mercury in 1959, through Project Gemini, and ending in 1972 with the closing of the Apollo program. This era occurred during my younger years spanning between my high school years to my early professional work career. I found it interesting to recall my memory of that era with the retelling of it in this book t This book provides a history of the early days of the American manned space program told from the perspective of the wives of the astronauts. This is a span of time beginning with Project Mercury in 1959, through Project Gemini, and ending in 1972 with the closing of the Apollo program. This era occurred during my younger years spanning between my high school years to my early professional work career. I found it interesting to recall my memory of that era with the retelling of it in this book through the eyes of the astronaut spouses.

The astronauts were considered to be heros by the American public and media. NASA encouraged this by being concerned about the image and reputation of the astronauts. Thus it was important for the astronauts to have happy marriages, or at least have the appearance of happy marriages. In the early years they successfully projected this image of all-American marriage bliss. However, once the first divorce occurred in the late 60s the floodgates were opened. Out of the Mercury Seven (Project Mercury), the New Nine (Project Gemini), and the fourteen Space Families (Apollo program), a total of 30 couples, only seven couples would stay together.

I was surprised to learn that eight astronauts died in the program’s first 12 years. That's a 27 percent fatality rate over the twelve years which provides an indication that selling life insurance to astronauts is not a profitable prospect. I remembered the death of the three in the Apollo 1 fire, but the other five deaths were mostly from airplane crash accidents which were less directly related to space flight equipment and thus not as easily remembered.

The wives referred to the launches as death watches, and their fears weren't misplaced. Everybody recognized that there were so many things that could go wrong and that the flights were dangerous. It turned out in the end that none of the astronauts were left stranded in space. But at the time nobody knew what the future held. These were stressful circumstances for the wives and families to live through, and they looked to other wives in the group for support.

Extramarital female attention to the astronauts was another source of stress on the marriage relationships. Unfortunately, many of the astronauts didn't keep their pants zipped. The problem was so prevalent that the wives had multiple nicknames for potential temptresses: a Suzy or, if the other woman sought out the men near Cape Canaveral, a Cape Cookie. The journalists of that era turned a blind eye to this sort of infidelity. I don't think journalists today are likely to be so restrained.

The book's narrative makes occasional reference to national social conditions that were taking place at the time: feminism, war protests, hippies, etc. The astronaut families were largely isolated from these things. However, the changing expectations for marriage roles probably played a role in the divorce rate.

The book is reasonably well written, and my two star rating is an indication of my low level of interest in the wives. The only reason I read this book was to prepare myself for a book group meeting.

I'm looking forward to the book, "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly for another view of women involved with the space program. ...more

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May 16, 2013 Nancy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I remember: Spring 1961, my senior year of high school, never before had a radio broadcast been piped into every classroom of Champaign High School, our entire English class listened attentively as Alan Shepard was catapulted into space and arced back to earth. The 15-minute suborbital flight made Shepard America's first Astronaut hero.

Through the 1960s and '70s NASA's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs grabbed the attention of the public. We held our breathe for the fate of Gus Grissom when t I remember: Spring 1961, my senior year of high school, never before had a radio broadcast been piped into every classroom of Champaign High School, our entire English class listened attentively as Alan Shepard was catapulted into space and arced back to earth. The 15-minute suborbital flight made Shepard America's first Astronaut hero.

Through the 1960s and '70s NASA's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs grabbed the attention of the public. We held our breathe for the fate of Gus Grissom when the hatch blew on Liberty Bell 7, and mourned when Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee died in a fire during a pre-launch test in 1967. We rejoiced when John Glenn first orbited the earth, when Apollo 8 sent Christmas Eve messages from moon orbit in 1968 and as Neil Armstrong reported, "That's one small step for man, one giant step for mankind," as he planted his foot on the moon's surface July 20, 1969.

Although I remember watching front-yard press conferences with astronaut wives, families watching liftoffs at Cape Kennedy, and weeping widows at funerals we knew little of the women behind the men. How did these wives - also pioneers of the space age - manage home and families while husbands trained for missions, how did they handle the stress of spouses hurled into space? Lily Koppel offers readers an inside look into the lives of astronaut wives.

Much of the book focuses on the original Mercury 7 wives: Louise Shepard, Betty Grissom, Annie Glenn, Rene Carpenter, Jo Schirra, Trudy Cooper, and Marge Slayton. Their husbands' ambitious careers catapulted these women into a trailblazing select group, The Astronaut Wives Club. Koppel explores female friendship, support and competition. They brought champagne, casseroles and deviled eggs to homes for the "death watch", as they called launch gathering. With absentee husbands they coped with relocations, pregnancies, unfaithful husbands, loneliness, groupies and intrusive reporters. Could they live up to the images NASA wanted of perfect marriages, perfect homes, perfect children, perfect media presence and public image?

"The Astronaut Wives Club" also takes readers through decades of major cultural, societal and lifestyle change, especially for women. Styles evolve from belted shirtwaist dresses, pearls, hats and gloves to mini skirts, prim tight curls to towering beehives. Woman's place moves from the kitchen/ June Cleaver role model to bra burning and professional careers. When the original astronauts were introduced in 1959 an ex-spouse was a secret to keep from NASA administrators, by the 1970s only seven of the first 30 astronaut couples were still together.

I thoroughly enjoyed this walk down memory lane and the insight into the astronaut wives.

This ARC was provided through Netgalley.com by Grand Central Publishing and scheduled for release June 11, 2013.

A friend recently recommended "The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal" also by Lily Koppel. After reading "The Astronaut Wives Club" I definitely placed her recommendation higher on my "To Read" list. ...more

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Aug 14, 2013 Maureen rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: space, biography

This book will disappoint most readers. We have been raised to expect a book to be organized, either in chronology or by subject. The book jumps around, crosses the objective gates, and follows few rules of logic.

Astronaut Wives Club starts off in an introductory manner, letting the reader know about the original Mercury astronauts. The reader would then expect to meet the wives as their husbands' careers evolve. Such is not the case.

Initially the author builds up to reveal the "founding" of the ...more

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Sep 06, 2013 The Library Lady rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: adult-biography

Here we go again with another great story turned into superficial, badly written fluff that insults its subjects. There were points where the writing was SO bad I was ready to put the book down,but kept on hoping for better things that never materialized.

One of the astronaut's wives talks about Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff, saying she threw it across the room because she was so irked by it. I am not sure WHAT in it bugged her, because Tom Wolfe may have made the wives secondary characters, but th ...more

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Aug 04, 2013 Crystal Starr Light rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: historical, non-fiction, in-tears-that-it-s-over, editor-wanted, biography

The little girl who dreamed of going into space squees.

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I LOVED THIS SO BAD!

What I hated: how short it was and how much it skipped over. I realize that this is probably from interviews done many years after the events, but I felt many missions (such as the infamous Apollo 13) were glosses over.

What I loved: everything else! It's all about these incredible diverse women trying to pretend to be the perfect 50's housewife under the scrutiny of the media. Real Housewives? Eat your heart ...more

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May 23, 2015 Wendy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

The Astronaut Wives Club

I decided to read this book because of the television series that is going to be starting soon and I wanted to see what it might be about. This was an okay book and it was a good story but it seemed to jump around alot. It was hard to keep up with all the wives as it jumped from one to another. I did like it though.

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Apr 30, 2013 Rose Ann rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: No one, actually.

Recommended to Rose Ann by: Publishers weekly

Shelves: biography-autobiography, started-didn-t-finish, space-program

What a disappointing mess. I so looked forward to this book because I love love love the Space Program. But I have to say I agree with other reviewers here at Goodreads who also rated it one-star. Poorly written, poorly done. And full of ludicrous inaccuracies that should have been caught and corrected. Doesn't Hachette have copy editors anymore?

For instance, on page 20 she refers to Senator (sic) Richard Nixon and the Kitchen Debate with Krushchev. Excuse me? Nixon was at the time serving his 2 ...more

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Aug 10, 2013 Melinda rated it liked it · review of another edition

Being a retired military spouse, I could very much relate to some of the situations these ladies found themselves in...moving, spouse being deployed, being a married, but "single" parent most of the time, sending your spouse into harms way (for me, a war), worrying about how those issues will impact your kids, and forming strong, bonded relationships with the other spouses living that life with you.
Even in this day and age, we are told to help our spouse focus on the mission & keep things runnin ...more

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Jun 18, 2013 Beth rated it liked it · review of another edition

When I first heard of this book and saw all of the pre-publication hype it was getting, I dismissed it as fluffy chick-lit (not that there's anything wrong with that; it's just not my thing.) But then I read a blurb by Douglas Brinkley - a well-respected serious author of historical non-fiction so I gave it a shot. How I wanted to love this book. I'm a big space nerd and have read lots about the astronauts. So this seemed like a natural fit: the familiar story but told from the other side. And t ...more

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Jun 29, 2013 Ddelmoni rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Interesting overview but very poorly written (as another reviewer wrote, "reads like a 10th grade book report"). The author should have also stuck to the original Mercury 7 wives taking their lives into the present and truly do them justice. The others could have been covered in subsequent books. Instead the author clearly bit off more then she could chew (and put in under 300 pages)and did no one justice.

I also have serious doubts about it's accuracy after reading about "SENATOR" Richard Nixon ...more

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Jan 12, 2016 Nicholas Sparks rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Out in paperback for the summer, it spotlights the lives of the first American astronauts and their families as told from the perspective of the wives themselves.

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Jun 16, 2013 Shelley rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: book-club, read-2013, calibre

Although the author says that she spoke to some of the Astronauts Wives Club, I never got that impression from reading this book. I felt the extent of her research was reading Life magazines and watching Apollo 13, The Right Stuff, and Charlie Wilson's War. I was never engaged with any of the wives. At. Any. Time. I never cared or felt anything for any of them (other than the one that committed suicide - I don't remember her name though so you can take it for what it's worth).

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Aug 02, 2013 Miriam Murcutt rated it did not like it · review of another edition

The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
This book is not so much rocket as dud squib. Not surprisingly, therefore, it never really takes off. Koppel has some interesting material to work with: a group of ordinary women propelled from obscurity to super stardom on the backs of their often-testy astronaut husbands. The book tries to include something from the lives of the wives of all of the astronauts from the Mercury Seven Program, which started in 1958, through the Gemini and Apollo Programs, wh ...more

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