The Apollo Wives

I recently watched a documentary about the Apollo missions according to the wives of the astronauts. The wives felt that they had to create the perfect family because they were on the television so much and since the astronauts were seen as heroes, whom Americans could look up to.

However, I was quite surprised to learn that seven out of the ten women interviewed for the documentary had been divorced. The wife of Donn Eisele, from Apollo 7, said that she and her husband were divorced shortly after Apollo 7 returned home because he had been with another woman. Clearly, it was a stressful life for the Apollo wives, between the cameras constantly infiltrating their lives and the worry of not knowing whether their husbands would return home or not.