Tracy Stevens

Tracy Stevens is an astronaut's wife in the tight, glamorous world of early NASA, playing hostess and helpmate while her husband Gordo trains for the stars. She's funny, sharp-tongued, and restless under the polished Life-magazine version of herself, clearly capable of more than the role the era has handed her.

Sarah Jones plays the smiling astronaut-wife persona as a performance within a performance, letting flickers of ambition and exhaustion show through the poise. The show uses her to interrogate the gender politics of the space race, and Jones makes Tracy's hunger for her own place in the sky feel completely earned rather than merely topical.