The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story (36 page)

The Astronaut Wives Club: the Mercury Seven, New Nine, and Fourteen get together for one of their teas. From left, seated: Marge Slayton, Louise Shepard, Barbara Gordon, Dotty Duke. From left, standing: Susan Cooper, Jo Schirra, Jane Conrad, Jan Evans, Joan Roosa, Pat White, Betty Grissom, Marilyn Lovell, Kathy England.
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Jane Conrad in her Pucci dress custom-made for her for Pete Conrad’s Apollo 12 launch festivities. Here, at the Eau Gallie Yacht Club party the night before liftoff, talking to Pete on the phone before he takes off for the Moon.
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Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra’s son, Marty, displays his coin collection, September 1962.
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Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra’s wife, Jo, with son, Marty, and daughter, Suzy, pose in their new home in Timber Cove, September 1962.
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Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra’s son, Marty, and daughter, Suzy, raid the kitchen, September 1962.
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Mercury astronaut Wally M. Schirra’s daughter, Suzy, “a bashful strawberry blonde,” photographed with her dolls, September 1962.
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Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra’s wife, Jo, with son, Marty, and daughter, Suzy, walk toward photographers at their new home in Timber Cove, September 1962.
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Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra’s wife, Josephine (“Jo”), sits for a portrait in her new home in Timber Cove, September 1962. Jo had furnished the house with a modern Oriental flair.
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Gemini 3 astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young and their families receive a ceremonial welcome in Houston (aka Space City, U.S.A.) upon their return home from their Gemini mission. Betty Grissom (left) and Barbara Young (right) were greeted by the mayor and given a dozen yellow roses of Texas as sons Scott and Mark Grissom smile, March 31, 1965.
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The Pats—Pat White (left) and Pat McDivitt (right), wives of the Gemini 4 crew, are pictured talking with their husbands via the special communication facilities at Mission Control at the Manned Spacecraft Center. The astronauts were in the second day of their four-day, sixty-two-orbit mission (during which Ed White performed the first U.S. spacewalk), June 1965.
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Bonnie White, daughter of Gemini 4 astronaut Ed White and his wife, Pat, chatting with her dad during the mission at Mission Control, June 1965.
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