SPACE RACE aces dissed by bitter mates in tell-all book shocker – Booze, Cheating, TERROR!
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SPACE RACE aces dissed by bitter mates in tell-all book shocker – Booze, Cheating, TERROR!
THE wives of America’s pioneering astronauts – from the Mercury Project to the Apollo missions – have been depicted as happy homemakers eagerly watching their heroic and squeaky-clean husbands embark on the greatest space adventures known to mankind.
BUT a new book, The Astronaut Wives Club, reveals their idyllic image hid tales of fear, adultery and booze.
“The men were almost God-like,” Jane Conrad, wife of the third man to walk on the moon, Pete Conrad, tells author Lily Koppel.“They were the rock stars. And we were the Stepford wives.”