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‘Astronaut Wives Club’ Portrays A Different Perspective of the Early Space Program

This summer, ABC is running a ten-part series called The Astronaut Wives Club, based on the non-fiction book by the same name by Lily Koppel. The series tells the stories of the early days of the US space program through the eyes of the wives of the astronauts in NASA’s Mercury program. Houston plays a […]

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This summer, ABC is running a ten-part series called The Astronaut Wives Club, based on the non-fiction book by the same name by Lily Koppel.

The series tells the stories of the early days of the US space program through the eyes of the wives of the astronauts in NASA's Mercury program.

Houston plays a background role in the latter half of the series, which was originally supposed to film here.

To learn more about the show, and the role Houston plays, Michael Hagerty talked with Maggie Galehouse, books editor for the Houston Chronicle.

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“The Astronaut Wives Club” blasts off on ABC on Thursday (Houston Chronicle, June 16, 2015)
The Astronaut Wives Club Book by Lily Koppel

VIDEO: Meet the Astronaut Wives:

Michael Hagerty

Michael Hagerty

Senior Producer, Houston Matters

Michael Hagerty is the senior producer for Houston Matters. He's spent more than 20 years in public radio and television and dabbled in minor league baseball, spending four seasons as the public address announcer for the Reno Aces, the Triple-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

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