“The Right Stuff” features each astronaut of the Mercury 7 and the wives and families they left behind; some ... but Zehetner insisted that the women were a vital part of the space program.

In 1959, the wives of the seven ... women had agreed upon in advance. Yet when the magazine was published, the women’s lipstick had been altered to look red. As Lily Koppel writes in “The ...

In 1959, when Nasa selected the seven astronauts they hoped would ... But Lily Koppel, author of The Astronaut Wives Club, says the women's lives were not always picture perfect at home.

In an early scene from ABC’s “The Astronaut Wives Club,” the women married to the first seven American astronauts ... “They were extremely brave,” she says. “Remember, no one knew ...

“Seven people were gone in an instant.” But, the pioneering legacy of Resnik and “The Six” lives on. Every NASA astronaut class since 1978 has included women. In 1992, Mae Jemison became ...

The book begins with the "Original Seven" wives of the Mercury ... They formed the Astronaut Wives' Club. The author includes how the women supported each other during space missions and media ...

It was a race to secure America’s future at the forefront of space, fueled by men brave enough to travel where no one had gone before. The astronauts ... for the women who came behind them ...

The secondary mirror reflects the light back through a hole in the center of the primary, to a focal point behind it where ... So a team of seven brave astronauts – NASA's Ken Bowersox, Dick ...