April 26, 2024

Meet the American who wrote the moon-landing software: Margaret Hamilton, computer whiz and mom

The Apollo 11 moon landing was one giant leap for womankind.  Credit Margaret Hamilton, a 32-year-old mother and computer whiz at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who wrote the software that placed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon on July 20, 1969.  She also worked on the five moon-landing missions that followed.  MEET […]

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