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minutes before the Apollo 11 lunar lander Eagle reached the moon’s
surface, computer alarms went off. But Margaret Hamilton had anticipated
the problem and created software to solve it. Hamilton didn’t just land
a man on the moon, she created the building blocks for modern software
engineering. And she did it as a working mom with a little one in tow.
As a working mother in the 1960s, Margaret Hamilton was unusual; but as a
spaceship programmer, she was positively radical. We should all know
her name
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