WPB Magazine Fall 2016 | Page 88

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. 88 wpb magazine - premier lifestyle magazine in west palm beach