trudy cooper had a little bit too much of it top gun mentality and her husband playing around on her. so before he was picked as an astronaut gordo had to come with his tail between his legs back to his wife and save trudy i have this amazing opportunity. i'm going to be picked as a master not. the only problem is they are not going to pick me if i don't have a wife and we were just separated. basically they get back together for the sake of the space race and they later get divorced almost right after his career is over but those were the kinds of details that the wives were very skittish about letting out as they are having this incredible public eye in the spotlight shined into their lives. so the program starts out in langley, virginia. all of the families packed up and moved to virginia and the men start training. they are down in cape canaveral, of course florida and one of the most interesting things i learned just starting out on the book was how the cape this incredible men's playground down there where they were working hard but also playing hard was in no wives is all at fi

trudy cooper had had a little too much of this top gun mentality and her husband bordeaux --gordo playing around on her. before he was picked as an astronaut, he came with his tail between his legs back is like saying trudy, i have this amazing opportunity, i will be picked as an astronaut. the only problem is they are not going to pick me if i don't have a white and we were just separated. they get back together for the sake of the space race. they would later get divorced after gordo's career is over. those of the kind of detail the wives were very skittish about letting out as they are having this incredible public eye and spotlight shined into their lives. the program starts out in langley, va.. all of the families pack up and moved to virginia and the men start training and they are down in cape canaveral, florida and one of the most interesting things i learned just starting out in the book was how the cape, this sort of incredible men's playgrounds down there where there are working hard but also playing hard, was a no wives zone at first. going to the cape for a wife was totally o

trudy cooper who ended up flying in the powder puff derby, she would have been up there in a minute.t some of the wives were like oh are you kidding? i want to stay down here with my feet on the ground. no zero g for me. and, of course, thaw all hope we will -- they all hope we will continue to explore space and push the envelope as their husbands used to sayment i will just -- say. i will just mention very briefly the red leather diary, my first book because i think it reflects on why i want to tell this kind of story. i grew up in chicago and moved to new york to go to barnard which is a women's college of columbia university. and it was really in new york -- i'm a city girl though my husband's from georgia, so we absolutely love savannah -- but it was of in new york just with that departmentty of people and i think -- density of people and i think walking around and looking at these old buildings and windows lit up that i just, you know just sort of naively, i guess, as a young woman just the incredible amount of untold stories that there are and how everybody has a story and that

trudy and gordo cooper, when cooper was about to be selected, he quickly had to take a trip out to visit his wife, trudy. they had been separated, and he basically said, like, listen, trudy, i'm about to be made an astronaut, and, you know, it's this incredible opportunity for us and the kids, but there's no way i'm going to be picked unless i have a wife. and family at home. so from the beginning there's this, you know, during the cold war it's getting into space, but it's also presenting that all-american family image. so there was actually no divorce loud within nasa until the late 1960s. and, you know, just this real focus with keeping everything together. and i think that was hard because the guys are only at home during the weekends in houston. they're at the cape all during the week. they fly these really hot airplanes, t-38s, to the cape for the week. and be so the women are left at home. they sort of can have another life if they want down there which is sort of given the blessing by nasa higher-ups as long as the two worlds don't meet and there are no disruptions and the "natio

cooperation they were providing out of syria. so i don't think the israelis have any fondness whatsoever for bashar al-assad. >> i think that is that trudy i see back there? >> hi, trudy. >> hi, ambassador ford. i hope you're getting a vacation at least. >> i get to sleep later in the morning. >> oh, well, thank goodness for that. i'd like to ask you, given the failure of the peace talks in geneva and the clear russian disinterest in facilitating them, has this led to, or do you think it will lead to any change in u.s. strategy on syria? and to be more specific, is there anymore willingness now or is there likely to be to give a green light to the opposition getting from whomever, anti-aircraft weapons, if for no other reason than to thwart the obvious military strategy of the regime which is to empty out population centers and let the neighbors deal with the consequences of permanent refugee flows? >> should we take one more? yes. >> thanks, aaron. >> there's a glare. hi barbara. >> ambassador ford, just out of curiosity, had the united states done something more dramatic in the summer of 2012 when there was that interesting bombing in