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Meet Margaret Hamilton, the badass '60s programmer who saved the moon landing
Huge amounts of aeronautical and hardware engineering effort went into the Apollo program from its birth in 1961 to its completion in 1972, as NASA and its partners designed the Saturn V rocket to get astronauts out of Earth's orbit, the command/service modules that orbited the moon, and the lunar modules that actually landed on the moon. But Apollo was also a major software project. Astronauts used the Apollo Guidance Computer, which was placed in both the...
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I met her once. She may be the best programmer I've ever met and I've met Linus Torvalds, Linux; James Gosling, Java; Bjarne Stroustrup, C++; etc. etc.