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Apollo’s Code Queen
Meet Margaret Hamilton, the software engineer who literally stacked up success for NASA’s Apollo missions. In this iconic 1969 photo, Margaret stands beside a towering stack of code she and her team wrote by hand.
This isn’t just a prop—these pages are the backbone of the software that made the moon landing possible. Margaret led the software engineering division at MIT’s Instrumentation Laboratory, developing onboard flight software for Apollo 11. Her work ensured that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin could take those historic first steps on the moon.
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