Married to the Moon: Lily Koppel Discusses ‘The Astronaut Wives Club’

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Astrowives Pat White (right) and Pat McDivitt (left) and the Whites’ children, Bonnie and Eddie III, visit Mission Control and sit with flight director Chris Kraft, during Gemini 4 (during which Ed White performed the first U.S. spacewalk), June 1965.
EYE The Astronaut Wives Club Lily Koppel

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Lily Koppel
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Apollo 8 rookie astronaut Bill Anders and family in their home, December 1968.
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Gemini 3 astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young and their families receive a ceremonial welcome in Houston upon their return home from their Gemini mission. Betty Grissom and Barbara Young were greeted by the mayor and given a dozen yellow roses.
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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, June 1965.

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