Dexter’s Desmond Harrington joins The Astronaut Wives Club

ABC’s The Astronaut Wives Club has cast its first astronaut. According to TVLine, Desmond Harrington—best known as Det. Joey Quinn on Dexter—will play Alan Shepard, first American in space. The 10-episode summer series will follow the early days of the space program in the 1960s, with a focus on the tight-knit group of women whose husbands are astronauts. JoAnna Garcia, Azure Parsons, Zoe Boyle, and Odette Annable have signed on to play the wives.