The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story (34 page)

Betty and Gus Grissom with their two sons, Scotty and Mark, after the Gemini 3 flight, March 1965.
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Alan Shepard receives the NASA Distinguished Service Award from President Kennedy after his
Freedom 7
flight, May 1961. Louise and Alan’s mother on the left, and the other Mercury astronauts in the background.
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Gus and Betty Grissom and their two boys at the airport at Patrick Air Force Base, speaking to the media after his
Liberty Bell 7
capsule sinks, July 1961.
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Betty and Scotty Grissom watch Gus’s press conference after his
Liberty Bell 7
flight.
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Trudy Cooper and her teenage daughters Cam and Jan watch Gordo lift off during Gemini 5, August 1965.
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The Pats—Astrowives Pat White (right) and Pat McDivitt (left) and the Whites’ children, Bonnie and Eddie III, visit Mission Control and sit with flight director Chris Kraft, during Gemini 4 (during which Ed White performed the first U.S. spacewalk), June 1965.
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Their wives greet the Apollo 12 crewmen and children in front of the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF), November 1969. Wives, from right to left, are Barbara Gordon, Jane Conrad, and Sue Bean.
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Astronaut Frank Borman poses with wife, Susan, and sons in their home, December 1968.
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Astronaut Jim Lovell and wife, Marilyn, and family in their home, December 19, 1968.
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Apollo 8 rookie astronaut Bill Anders and family in their home, December 1968.
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The family of Apollo 8 astronaut Jim Lovell enthusiastically follows the liftoff of the Saturn V rocket carrying him and crewmen Frank Borman and Bill Anders on the first leg of their lunar voyage, which began at 7:51 a.m., EST, December 21, 1968. From left are James, Jeffery, Susan, Marilyn Lovell, and Barbara.
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Apollo 9 “token hippie” astronaut Rusty Schweickart relaxes with his wife, Clare, and children at their home near the Manned Spacecraft Center, Texas, March 1969.
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Apollo 10 astronaut Tom Stafford relaxes with his wife, Faye, and teenage daughters, Dionne, fifteen, and Karin, twelve, sitting on the floor, at their home in Nassau Bay, Texas, near the Manned Spacecraft Center, May 1969.
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