Atmosphere and insight in tale of astronauts' wives

The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story

**By Lily Koppel**

**Headline, €18.90**

**Reviewed by Dermot Bolger**

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In 1959 - as the technological promise of the 1960s beckoned, and the Cold War found a new proxy theatre in outer space - seven Americans were chosen by Nasa to go where no Americans had gone before. Others would follow in their footsteps. But these original seven pioneers were the mould-breakers; the first brave handful ...