Meet the American who wrote the moon-landing software: Margaret Hamilton, computer whiz and mom
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The Apollo 11 moon mission provided giant leap for womankind, thanks to the incredible intellect of young software engineer and mother Margaret Hamilton.
She also worked on the five moon-landing missions that followed. "There was no second chance. We took our work seriously, many of us beginning this journey while still in our 20s." — Margaret Hamilton "The moon landing should be remembered for the spirit of possibility that turned science fiction into reality." — NASA historian Brian Odom "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon." — President Kennedy, 1961 "As a working mother in the 1960s, Hamilton was unusual; but as a spaceship programmer, Hamilton was positively radical." — Wired magazine "Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world; there was no choice but to be pioneers." — Margaret Hamilton Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
The director of software engineering at MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory, Hamilton was a pioneer of computer science in a transformative era, and on a transformative mission, in human history.
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