west palm beach magazine
Book of the Season
The Step:
A Woman’s
Earthly Journey
in the Apollo
Space Years!
By Sandra Schulman
T
he cover of Martha Lemasters’
moving memoir shows her in an IBM
jumpsuit, standing in an industrial studio
where pieces of the Apollo rockets were
made in the 1960s. An uncropped image
inside the book shows she is wearing
strappy heels and beehive hairdo that
gives you a fuller picture of the required
daily “uniform” she wore, which included
miniskirts that were banned in the
working area. In fact she was once cited
for a violation when she wore a miniskirt
in the rocket area when she ventured
there for a photo op as part of her job.
This duality of a woman’s place in the
male dominated world of early space
travel is at the heart of Lemasters story.
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