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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 .
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 .
Mark Harmon as Wally Schirra, Mercury and Gemini veteran who commands Apollo 7 in episode 3, "We Have Cleared the Tower", originally backup commander of Apollo 1. [1] Robert C. Treveiler as Gordon Cooper, Mercury and Gemini veteran seen at CAPCOM during Gemini 4 in episode 11, "The Original Wives' Club", and in TV interview during episode 9.
She was dubbed “the undisputed prom queen of the early space program” by People magazine.“The Right Stuff” tells the story of America’s first astronauts: John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Gordon ...
Walter Marty Schirra Jr. (/ ʃ ɜː ˈ r ɑː / shur-AH; March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007) was an American naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury , which was the United States' first effort to put humans into space .
Kenneth Mitchell, who appeared in the TV series "Star Trek: Discovery," "Jericho" and "The Astronaut Wives Club," died Saturday after battling ALS.
Dismayed by his stalled astronaut career, Cooper retired from NASA and the USAF on July 31, 1970, with the rank of colonel, having flown 222 hours in space. [2] Soon after he divorced Trudy, [69] he married Suzan Taylor, a schoolteacher, in 1972. [69] They had two daughters: Colleen Taylor, born in 1979; and Elizabeth Jo, born in 1980.
On Monday, the pedestrian was identified as 19-year-old Lexington resident Hudson Schirra, according to Richland County Coroner Naida Rutherford. The collision happened at about midnight, ...