Tag: margaret hamilton

Location: NASA Office

January 25, 2023

Date: 1969 Half a century ago, MIT played a critical role in the development of the flight software for NASA’s Apollo program, which landed humans on the Moon for the first time in 1969. Job: Lead Developer on Apollo Mission Standing: Margaret Hamilton Nearby books: The program codes they wrote for the vehicle that landed…

Margaret Hamilton

January 11, 2022

Margaret Hamilton was the inventor of the on-board flight software for the first manned Apollo program in 1969. Program code files used by the Apollo Mission In 2016, President Barack Obama honored her with the Presidential Award