It really is 1965 and Ginny Eckhardt is a research fiction writer. She’s been released in the big research fiction magazines and it is close friends with lots of the popular research fiction writers of the day. Her spouse, Walden, has just been chosen by NASA among the New Nineteen Apollo astronauts… which means Ginny will be a person in the Astronaut Wives Golf club.

However the realities of spaceflight fascinate Ginny, her genders bars her from your United State space programme. Her research fiction offers small in the way of consolation—but maybe there is something she can do about tha¦

Within the years 1965 to 1972, when Walden Eckhardt lifts-off aboard Apollo 15 as the mission’s lunar module pilot, that is Ginny’s life: wife, science fiction writer, astronaut wife… because that’s ALL THAT OUTER SPACE ALLOWS.

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