The Apollo 11 moon mission provided a giant leap for womankind, thanks to the remarkable intellect of young software engineer and mother Margaret Hamilton.
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.
Yet Hamilton had built the software, primitive by today's standards, to compensate for just such a scenario. 'For a moment Mission Control faced a ‘go/no-go’ decision, but with high confidence in the software developed by computer scientist Margaret Hamilton and her team, they told the astronauts to proceed,' Smithsonian Magazine wrote of the frightening moments before the moon landing.
She earned pop-culture acclaim the following year, when Lego released its Women of NASA set, featuring Hamilton along with female space pioneers astronauts Mae Jemison and Sally Ride and former NASA chief astronomer and 'Mother of Hubble' Nancy Roman. Hamilton was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2022. She continued to work on NASA software right up through the Skylab, the first U.S. space station, in 1973.
There is this old cliché in the space program,' said NASA historian Odom. 'If you want to know how difficult it was to put men on the moon, just try doing it again.' To read more stories in this unique 'Meet the American Who…' series from Fox News Digital, click here. For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle.
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