NEW YORK—April 5, 2016–Morgan James’s new release, The Step: One Woman’s Journey to Finding her Own Happiness and Success During the Apollo Space Program by Martha Lemasters, chronicles the author’s personal experience working in the space program, and the important contribution women made to the historical launch.
“The Eagle has landed”… Those four words instantly bring to mind the Apollo 11 space mission. In grade school students are taught the details of the famous moon landing. Most every American could tell you the year American first placed a man on the moon, the names of the men who landed there, and the famous phrases they uttered. What often gets overlooked is the countless hours put in by the women behind the scenes to make that historical landing happen.
In The Step: One Woman’s Journey to Finding her Own Happiness and Success During the Apollo Space Program, one woman tells the story that didn’t make the history books. Martha Lemasters worked as a member of the launch support team for the first lunar landing and years of space missions to follow. In a time when women were deemed a liability in this industry, this single mother had to overcome monumental obstacles to work in a male dominated field. In this exciting new memoir, she shares her struggles, her triumphs, and her perseverant spirit.
This glimpse into the past provides readers a comprehensive look at the team that helped make history. From engineers to analysts, secretaries to astronauts, Lemasters shows the integral part played by each crew member, and how the women’s suffrage movement effected them. Enlightening and inspiring, The Step: One Woman’s Journey to Finding her Own Happiness and Success During the Apollo Space Program provides new perspective to these well known events.
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About the Author:
Martha Lemasters spent almost ten years working as a PR writer at Cape Kennedy as a member of IBM’s team on NASA’s Apollo Program in the sixties and seventies. As a member of the launch support team, these years saw success in seven moon landings, Skylab and Apollo/Soyuz. She worked her way up the ladder from secretary to a respected writer as a single mother of three daughters, trying to find her own happiness along the way.
More About This Title:
The Step: One Woman’s Journey to Finding her Own Happiness and Success During the Apollo Space Program by Martha Lemasters will be released by Morgan James Publishing on April 5, 2016. The Step—ISBN 978-1630477141—has 240 pages and is being sold as a trade paperback for $17.95.
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