On July 20, 1969, just seven minutes before humanity’s first moon landing, an alarm suddenly sounded aboard the U.S. Apollo ...

Margaret Hamilton was the computer scientist who led the team behind Apollo's flight software. Her pioneering work helped the Apollo 11 computer handle unexpected overloads during the historic 1969 ...

Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team that developed Apollo's flight software. During the Apollo 11 landing, the system helped the onboard computer recover from a critical overload and continue ...

The computer scientist led Apollo guidance software development, helped avert a landing abort in 1969 and popularised the ...

A MAN may have been first on the moon – but it was actually a woman who put him there. Trailblazer Margaret Hamilton led the ...

Margaret Hamilton, the visionary computer scientist whose pioneering code guided NASA’s Apollo missions to the moon and ...

Apollo 11 - Landing on the Sea of Tranquility - July 20, 1969. 16mm landing film by Gary Neff, source footage courtesy John Knoll. Full description: http://history ...

A spacecraft that pursued the extreme of being 'light, simple, and capable of returning even if a failure occurs'The Apollo ...

"Forget It" was the name of a small computer program never thought to be needed, which will nonetheless go down in history along with its author, Margaret Hamilton, the American software engineer who ...

In 1969, while Apollo 11 was descending to the moon, the computer issued a "1202" alarm.The number was relayed to the ground, and Armstrong asked what it meant. In the NASA communication logs, there ...

July 1969 changed humanity’s understanding of what was possible. When Apollo 11 reached the lunar surface, millions of people ...

A goddess to the Greeks, worshiped by witches, an inspiration to mad necromancers, the moon has always been a muse for poets and songwriters. The ruler of the ocean’s tides, slowly vanishing and ...