you have seven women, all different walks of life, allen sheppard's wife louise was very highbred. i think of her as the sabrina and audrey have removed character. she drew up as the gardener's daughter at longwould gardens and stayed on the east coast so when she met jackie kennedy she almost treated jackie like she was an old friend, they were two private school girls almost, getting to know each other. you have this band forming, these women are in the public eye and they don't know how to deal with it at first so they start giving each other words of advice. if a reporter asks you, something you don't know anything about, don't worry, just say it is classified. one of my favorite stories, because a lot of the inspiration for writing the book came out of these technicolor looking photographs from life magazine because the wives were on the cover of life dozens of times from 1959-1972 at the end of the apollo program. the wives have their first cover shoot and they will be clustered around this mercury capsule, which when you see it today at the smithsonian, this thing looks real

you have seven women, all different walks of life, allen sheppard's wife louise was very highbred. i think of her as the sabrina and audrey have removed character. she drew up as the gardener's daughter at longwould gardens and stayed on the east coast so when she met jackie kennedy she almost treated jackie like she was an old friend, they were two private school girls almost, getting to know each other. you have this band forming, these women are in the public eye and they don't know how to deal with it at first so they start giving each other words of advice. if a reporter asks you, something you don't know anything about, don't worry, just say it is classified. one of my favorite stories, because a lot of the inspiration for writing the book came out of these technicolor looking photographs from life magazine because the wives were on the cover of life dozens of times from 1959-1972 at the end of the apollo program. the wives have their first cover shoot and they will be clustered around this mercury capsule, which when you see it today at the smithsonian, this thing looks real

war and we are looking to lease seven men, gus grissom, john glenn, allen sheppard, among them, as our cold war warriors, these silver suited spaceman who are going to take us to the stars and beyond. so you have these macho test pilots sitting up on this stage and something peculiar start happening. the reporters are raising their hands and instead of asking tell us about your bravery, about why you wanted to volunteer, the reporters want to hear what does your wife think about this? she is going to let you be catapulted into space, and so there is this immediate attention to the wives of these men. i want to tell you about some of the women. renee carpenter is sort of the maryland monroe of the space age. she wakes up in garden grove, calif. early in the morning and sees these headlights hovering in her yard. is a the ufo? what is that? they are reporters who have come to interview her about what it is going to be like to be one of the wives of these spacemen. it is almost science fiction. reporters can't believe it. renee wanted to be an actress in high school, she opens the door, o