A Woman to Know: Margaret Hamilton
I hope that we continue with exploration. — Margaret
This photo is Margaret Hamilton, standing with the code she made (by hand!) for the Apollo space mission.
So, this stack got us to the moon. nbd.
Read more:
Her code got humans to the moon — and invented software itself (Wired)
Margaret Hamilton, the engineer who took Apollo to the moon (Medium)
Meet Margaret Hamilton, the badass '60s programmer who saved the Apollo moon landing (Vox)
Remembering the Apollo 11 moon landing with the woman who made it happen (Time)
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