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'Astronaut Wives Club' blasts off: Co-star talks creative license, cast sisterhood [i]In "The Astronaut Wives Club," debuting tonight (June 18) on ABC, viewers meet the seven women who stood behind America's first spacemen as the space age literally got off the ground in the early 1960s. The flip side of "The Right Stuff," the series follows Louise Shepard, Betty Grissom, Annie Glenn, Rene Carpenter, Jo Schirra and Trudy Cooper as they strive to hold down the homefront while also supporting their husbands Alan, Gus, John, Scott, Wally and Gordo on NASA's Project Mercury missions. Marge Slayton, the seventh of the spouses, is thrust into the same spotlight as the other wives but faces additional hurdles given her own past and the path that her husband, Deke, will follow to reach space. As he becomes the chief of the astronauts, "Mother Marge" takes lead of the wives' club. Actress Erin Cummings, who portrays the Marge Slayton in the ten-episode series, spoke with collectSPACE about reconvening the "Astronaut Wives Club" for television and how the the cast reflected their characters' bond 50 years ago. This is part two of our interview...[/i]
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