The Apollo 11 moon mission provided giant leap for womankind, thanks to the incredible intellect of young software engineer and mother Margaret Hamilton.
"The moon landing should be remembered for the spirit of possibility that turned science fiction into reality,"Margaret Hamilton, circa 1969, demonstrating the inside of the Apollo 11 capsule. Hamilton led the team that wrote the command module and lunar module software for the Apollo program.Working in fields dominated by men, Hamilton often had her toddler at her side as she wrote the code that changed mankind’s relationship with the heavens forever.
She is also credited with coining the phrase"software engineer" — a job title now ubiquitous in business culture. ENGLISH PUB OWNER SAYS GHOST OF DEAD DRINKER IS HAUNTING HIS BUSINESS: INCIDENTS HAVE ‘SPOOKED PEOPLE OUT’ Hamilton's star began to rise, finally, over American science in recent years, when an incredible photo emerged on social media showing the smiling young woman beside a stack of papers that reached the top of her head.
"We knew that. We took our work seriously, many of us beginning this journey while still in our 20s."Paoli, IndianaHer father wrote poetry and encouraged her artistic side, which complemented her obvious mathematic and technical skills. "She wondered why insects were called daddy long legs, so she started calling them mommy long legs. She joined the boys' baseball team to prove she could do it."
Hamilton entered college at the University of Michigan, before transferring to tiny Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, where she studied mathematics and philosophy. "In order to accomplish the mission, somebody had to invent the modern concept of software," said Odom.She was put in charge of MIT Instrumentation Laboratory's software engineering division in 1965.
"I had lived through several missions before Apollo 11 and each was exciting in its own right, but this mission was special," Hamilton told MIT News in 2009. Actor and filmmaker Tom Hanks , along with NASA mathematician and computer software pioneer Margaret Hamilton leave an East Room ceremony in which they were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House on Nov. 22, 2016.
Margaret Hamilton with moon-landing programming documents."Margaret and the Moon" written by Dean Robbins and illustrated by Lucy Knisley, tells the story of pioneering computer scientist Margaret Hamilton. She has rarely given interviews in her career. She did not respond to requests this week from Fox News Digital.
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