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'The Astronaut Wives Club': Space history vs. Hollywood in Episode 5 'Flashpoint' [i]In a bit of fortuitous timing, the fifth hour of ABC's "The Astronaut Wives Club" opened on Thursday night (July 16) with a large sign reading "New Horizons." It was only coincidence though, that the show's broadcast came just two days after NASA's New Horizons probe flew by the distant dwarf planet Pluto. In the "Astronaut Wives" episode "Flashpoint," the sign was referring to the Gemini program set 50 years ago — included, perhaps, as a bit of foreshadowing for the episode's primary theme of the role of women in the 1960's space program and in society. "The Astrowives fight their own battles in their marriages and the world at large," ABC wrote in its synopsis. "Trudy [Cooper, played by Odette Annable] learns of attempts to quash a budding astronaut training program for women, and John Glenn [Sam Reid] considers a run for office."[/i]
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