VIDEO : JoAnna Garcia Swisher Joins ABC's 'The Astronaut Wives Club'

As the wife of Cleveland Indians baseball player Nick Swisher, actress JoAnna Garcia Swisher knows what it's like to have her husband's back.
She says she feels protective of her husband who works in an field that has many highs and lows. The publicity surrounding pro sports shares much in common with the hype back in the day over space travel.
She channeled "that sense of love and commitment" into her role on ABC's "The Astronaut Wives Club," premiering Thursday.
The 10-episode series follows wives of the first Americans in space.
35 year old Garcia Swisher plays Betty Grissom, wife of astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom, who became the second American to rocket into space flying aboard the Liberty Bell 7 space capsule in 1961.
Grissom returned to Earth in a splashdown at sea, but the hatch blew off early, causing the capsule to sink.??