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Jeff Spry

'For All Mankind' star Wrenn Schmidt on her character's journey from NASA's mission control to the slammer (interview)

A woman in front of a mission control monitor.

It’s done already? Tonight, "For All Mankind" launches into its 10th and final episode of an eventful fifth season filled with romantic gestures, explosive action, a Happy Valley rebellion, major food shortages, heartbreaking sacrifices, and a Titan discovery of illuminating proportions.

Wrenn Schmidt and her extraordinary portrayal of Margo Madison, from a bright NASA engineer who becomes the first woman at Mission Control, then director of the Johnson Space Center, to trading Soviet secrets, stealing an asteroid, living as a Russian refugee, then landing in a U.S jail, has to be one of the wildest character arcs ever witnessed in the history of television.

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