the Astronaut Wives Club / Lily Koppel / 270 pages

This interesting book is about the lives of the wives of the astronauts and covers the entire period of the space program to the cancellation of the program after the first moon shots.  At first, the book reads like she watched the movie "the Right Stuff" a bunch of times, but she really did interview astronaut wives and did extensive research.  I think the similarity is due to the accurate work of Tom Wolfe in his book and movie. 
The astronaut wives may have gained fame, money, and society recognition, but the price was extremely high.  They had little privacy, huge amounts of stress, absent, cheating husbands, and a lonely life in Houston.  By the end, half to three quarters of them were divorced.
There were so many wives from the different programs that I had difficulty keeping them straight as the author jumps around a lot from wife to wife and incident to incident.  Toward the end, she basically just goes by the mission number and doesn't have the detail that she had for the early years.  This was possible due to it becoming repetitive - stress - infidelity - alcohol - privacy issues.  She acknowledges the courage it took to be an astronaut wife and how much they endured for their astronaut husbands.  Always "Proud" - "Thrilled" - and "Happy"