Who Could Ever Compete With The Moon? The True Stories Of The Astronaut Wives Club

The Wives Thought They Looked Like “Stepford Wives”

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During one of the group’s first public appearances, the press immediately honed in on the wives’ feelings about the missions. “What do your wives think?” the reporters asked. The official answer was, “proud and excited”, while in reality a lot of the wives were terrified of losing their husbands in an awful accident.

Wife of Apollo 12 Astronaut Pete Conrad, Jane Dreyfus, believed that they all of the wives looked like cardboard cutouts. “I think we look like Stepford Wives, don’t you? Because we all tried to be so calm and cool and everything, but we were a far cry from Stepford Wives.”