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Rene [A] Carpenter (April 12, 1928 – July 24, 2020) was an American newspaper columnist and host of two Washington, D.C., television shows. As the wife of Scott Carpenter , one of the Mercury Seven astronauts, she was a pioneering member of NASA's early spaceflight families.
The Astronaut Wives Club was an informal support group of women, sometimes called Astrowives, whose husbands were members of the Mercury 7 group of astronauts. The group included Annie Glenn , Betty Grissom , Louise Shepard , Trudy Cooper , Marge Slayton , Rene Carpenter , and Jo Schirra .
The Astronaut Wives Club is a 2015 American period drama television series developed by Stephanie Savage for ABC. It is based on Lily Koppel 's 2013 book of the same name . [ 2 ] The series tells the story of the wives of the Mercury Seven – America's first group of astronauts – who together formed the Astronaut Wives Club .
Yes, the platinum blonde Mrs. Carpenter arrived at the wives’ Mercury space capsule photoshoot wearing a sleeveless red floral dress, breaking the dress-code rules, as the other women were ...
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He married his first wife, Rene, in September 1948. [71] They had five children: Marc Scott, Kristen Elaine, Candace Noxon, Robyn Jay, [72] and Timothy Kit, who died in infancy. [73] [74] By 1968, Carpenter and his wife had separated, with him living in California and Rene with their children in Washington, D.C. The Carpenters divorced in 1972 ...
Astronaut in the United States Interplanetary Expeditionary Force (USIEF). They were going to send a dog... but they thought that would be too cruel. Squarely Stable N/A (Early 1960s) Mercury: Contemporary Husband of Primly Stable, super-perfect astronaut wife in skits performed by Rene Carpenter and other Mercury wives. [27] [28]
Simon said that he based the play on a "spirited political conversation he overheard between author Paddy Chayefsky and Rene Carpenter, the wife of astronaut Scott Carpenter." [ 1 ] While it features Simon's lively comic style—still on display on Broadway in Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple when The Star-Spangled Girl debuted—it was ...