[1] It was first published on June 11, 2013, by the Hachette Book Group and provided the basis for the 2015 television series, The Astronaut Wives Club.

This rise to celebrity status would take its toll on these women and they ended up turning to each other for solace, calling themselves the Astronaut Wives Club.

As a result, they formed the Astronaut Wives Club and met regularly to discuss their daily lives and issues that only the others would truly understand.

[2] Some of the subject matter of the book was previously told in Tom Wolfe's classic 1979 novel The Right Stuff[3] and the 1983 Oscar-winning movie based on it.

The Washington Post praised the work commenting that its anecdotes "fill this breezy and entertaining book, which—like the women themselves—takes pleasure in both playing up and defying the stereotypes of the time".