  The WIRE satellite was launched in March 1999 and was the first space mission
to do asteroseismology from space on a large number of stars. WIRE has produced
very high-precision photometry of a few hundred bright stars (V<6) with
temporal coverage of several weeks, including K giants, solar-like stars, delta
Scuti stars, and beta Cepheids. In the current work we will describe the status
of science done on seven detached eclipsing binary systems. Our results
emphasize some of the challenges and exciting results expected from coming
satellite missions like COROT and Kepler. Unfortunately, on 23 October 2006,
communication with WIRE failed after almost eight years in space. Because of
this sad news we will give a brief history of WIRE at the end of this paper.
