The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story (33 page)

Jim Lovell kisses his wife, Marilyn, at Cocoa Beach, December 1968.
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Susan Borman (right) and Valerie Anders hear their husbands coming around the far side of the Moon during Apollo 8, Christmas 1968.
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Marilyn Lovell toasts her husband, Jim, during Apollo 8.
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Apollo 11 families “on” the Moon. From left: the Aldrins, the Collinses; at right, the Armstrongs.
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Pat and Mike Collins eat breakfast, Nassau Bay, March 1969.
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Joan Aldrin cries in relief as she watches on TV as the lunar module lands on the Moon during Apollo 11, July 20, 1969, 3:18 p.m. central daylight Earth time.
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Togethersville, July 1969: Pat Collins (in red with beehive), celebrating splashdown at the end of Apollo 11 with friends and champagne. (The bunny is the family’s pet, Snowball.)
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At home in Nassau Bay, Joan Aldrin applauds as she watches TV coverage of the splashdown of Apollo 11.
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The wives (in Hawaiian leis) greet Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in the Mobile Quarantine Facility.
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Marilyn Lovell, wife of Apollo 13’s Jim Lovell, listens to the squawk box and watches TV coverage of the ill-fated mission at the Lovell home in Timber Cove, April 1970.
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Neil Armstrong’s family watches from a boat on the Banana River as Apollo 11 lifts off.
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Astrowives Sue Bean, Barbara Gordon, and Jane Conrad hold up the club’s motto during Apollo 12, November 1969.
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Astronaut Alan Shepard and his wife, Louise, wave to a crowd outside the U.S. Capitol building following Alan’s
Freedom 7
flight.
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