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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 the 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.”