Reposted by Dr Eleanor Roberts
There would have been no successful Apollo program without the brilliance & dedication of Margaret Hamilton, who built the software from nothing.
"We had to find a way, and we did. Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world; there was no choice but to be pioneers.”
Godspeed, Mrs Hamilton
news.mit.edu
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
