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

Louise Shepard

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Louise Shepard was dubbed ‘Saint Louise’ by the other wives, thanks to her calm, serene and ladylike attitude. Her husband was Alan Shepard, the first American to be launched into space. The couple met when Alan went to Principia College in 1942 during his Christmas Break.

By 1944, Alan and Louise were secretly engaged. Out of all of the wives and their husbands, this pair managed to keep a relatively normal level of privacy and spoke little about their home lives, but this often led to Louise being the butt of a lot of jokes. You didn’t really think that “Saint Louise” was a compliment, did you? Her husband was certainly no saint at all.