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Step

A memoir of working as one of the few female employees at the Kennedy Space Center in the 1960s.

Martha Lemasters’s gripping memoir tells the remarkable story of her life as a single mother employed at Cape Kennedy during the Apollo years. Fiercely determined, she works her way up, finally realizing her dream of becoming a writer in a male-dominated workplace, and witnesses history first hand.

In this riveting insider's look at the real dream team who made landing a man on the moon possible, we get to know many of the main players in the most powerful scientific and engineering team of its time.

The space race and the sexual revolution collide in this true story of what it was like to be a part of this remarkable era, and the historical accomplishment of launching our astronauts to the moon.

Martha Lemasters

Martha Lemasters is a Floridian, reared in Ft. Lauderdale and currently residing in Vero Beach, Florida. During the late 50's, she attended the University of Florida majoring in Journalism.She began work for IBM on the Apollo Program at Cape Kennedy in the late 60's. As a typist, then secretary and finally PR writer, she proved herself and earned her advancement. Kennedy Space Center during this time was a man's world. It was made up of engineers, scientists, analysts, programmers and technicians with men outnumbering women 200 to 1. Women were deemed 'safety hazards' if dresses were worn on the launch platforms; catcalls and disrespect welcomed the women who traversed the bays of the VAB.As a marketing communications writer, Lemasters wrote about the people who made up one of the greatest technical teams ever assembled in American history. Included in those stories are the heartaches, failures, losses, and challenges to the individuals who made up the Apollo launch support team at the Cape.Following the end of the Apollo program, she continued into the Skylab and Soyuz programs. After these programs ended she joined Harris Corporation in Melbourne, also as a writer.

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