The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story (37 page)

Pat White and her son, Eddie III, listen to their man, astronaut Ed White, and talk to him during the Gemini 4 mission from Mission Control, June 1965.
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Eddie White III listens to his dad’s voice coming from space during the Gemini 4 mission, June 1965.
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Apollo 13 wife Mary Haise (who was seven months pregnant at the time) and her three kids meet photographers and press outside their home in El Lago after the successful recovery of their astronaut Fred Haise and his fellow crewmen in the Pacific Ocean after the harrowing Apollo 13.
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Astronaut Ron Evans and his wife, Jan, November 1972. Ron was the command module pilot of the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission.
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Astronaut Gene Cernan poses for a family portrait with his wife, Barbara, and their daughter, Teresa Dawn, nine, at their home in Nassau Bay, near the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, October 1972. Cernan, known as the last man to walk on the Moon during Apollo 17, was the commander of the final Apollo 17 lunar landing mission.
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Astronaut Jim McDivitt relaxes with his wife, Pat, and children at their home near the Manned Spacecraft Center, Texas, February 1969.
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Jim (“Houston, we have a problem”) Lovell, the famous commander of Apollo 13 (and the command module pilot of Apollo 8, the first mission to orbit the Moon, given a fifty-fifty shot), poses for a portrait with his family. Left to right, daughter Barbara, wife Marilyn, son Jeffrey, Commander Jim, and daughter Susan, February 1970, before Apollo 13.
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Annie Glenn, wife of Mercury astronaut John Glenn, smiles posing for a photo, after John is tapped to be the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.
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Command module pilot of the famous Apollo 11 first Moon landing mission, Michael Collins and his family: wife Pat (Irish Catholic girl from Boston), and children, Kathleen, Ann, and Michael, July 7, 1969, just before his flight.
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“Last man on the Moon” Apollo 17 mission commander Gene Cernan relaxes with wife, Barbara, and nine-year-old daughter Teresa Dawn after completing “realistic lunar surface training exercises” in preparation for his scheduled launch to the Moon, December 1972.
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Rene Carpenter, wife of astronaut Scott Carpenter, second American to orbit the Earth, poses with her family, May 1962.
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Rene Carpenter, wife of America’s second astronaut to orbit the Earth, responds to questions from the press at Cocoa Beach, Florida, shortly following the landing of her astronaut husband. With her are their four children.
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