Draft:Roberta Pilkenton

Roberta Pilkenton was one of the seamstresses who sewed the Apollo spacesuits used by the astronauts on the many NASA Apollo missions to outer space.

Career
NASA had selected International Latex Corp (ILC) or ILC Dover to create the lunar space suits in March of 1962. Pilkenton started work at ILC on October 19, 1965 as a Class A Sewer. She later became a Class A Cementer, and after six months became a group leader. Pilkenton said about the work: "It was a challenge. And I liked a challenge!"