As Deby had not long moved into her house, she had used a stepladder to strip wallpaper but that and a few foil blankets became the basis of her lunar lander.
The piece of the Moon sits at the bottom of the ladder and the women step on it as they get off.
“I thought I could have a piece of the Moon, somehow, touching someone’s foot, somehow connected with my stepladder, somehow in my living room,” she said.
She also called on her niece Jane McKnight to help her to design and make spacesuits and boots.
Jane admitted that her aunt’s idea came as a bit of a surprise.
“She sent a message and at first I couldn’t make out what she was saying, I was very confused,” Jane said.
“And once I understood that she meant for women to walk on the Moon in her living room, I went: ‘This is incredible, how can I help?'”