The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story - Plot & Excerpts
said Jane Dreyfus, formerly Jane Conrad, looking at an old photo. “Because we all tried to be so calm and so cool and everything, but we were a far cry from Stepford Wives.” “We lived through this amazing time. It’s like people who’ve been shipwrecked together,” said Clare Whitfield, the ex-wife of Rusty, the “hippie” astronaut. “They were like rock stars. It was sickening.” All the same, it was absolutely thrilling.“It was hard for them to come home,” admitted Faye Stafford. “Who could ever compete with the Moon? I was lucky if I could come in second.”“I was in big-time denial,” said another Astrowife. “Somebody else might be screwing around, but of course my husband wasn’t.”“There were people there all the time, from sunup to sundown. I was always so grateful for that,” said Susan Borman. She had finally gone through rehab for her alcoholism.In 1991 the first reunion of the Astronaut Wives Club, now rechristened the Original Wives Club (and affectionately nicknamed the K-I-Ts for Keepers-In-Touch), met in Deer Valley, Utah.
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