Martha was in on the ground floor of “mankind’s
greatest achievement to date”.
The Step: One Woman’s Journey to
Finding her Own Happiness and
Success During the Apollo Space
Program, is an insider’s look at the real
dream team who made this achievement
of landing a man on the moon possible.
But it’s much more than that, as Lemasters takes on women’s issues and equality, things her mother never even had the
chance to question, and strides Lemasters sees change in her lifetime. There’s
science, history, humor and romance
too, as a loveless marriage crumbles and
Lemasters charts unfamiliar waters as a
single mother working woman.
Picture Mad Men at Cape Kennedy, and
Martha as Peggy Olson, battling sexism
while proving her smarts every step of
the way. The title refers to something
certain people have – The Step – a determined stride and purpose, while also
referencing Neil Armstrongs quote when
he stepped out onto the surface of the
moon.
A single mother, Lemasters worked
her way up to her dream of being a
writer - astronaut was an unattainable
goal - covering her life as a writer at Cape
Kennedy during the Apollo years. She
witnesses history first hand as the Apollo
11 launch is successful, only to see the
whole space program scrapped in later
years when America’s focus and big
budgets shifted.
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