2022年5月15日 · On the Apollo 11 mission, Margaret Hamilton watched as the software designed by her team guided astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin toward the Moon’s surface. But in one heart-stopping moment, warning messages flashed on the computer.

In one of the critical moments of the Apollo 11 mission, the Apollo Guidance Computer, together with the on-board flight software, averted an abort of the landing on the Moon. Three minutes before the lunar lander reached the Moon's surface, several computer alarms were triggered.

2019年3月14日 · On July 20, 1969, as the lunar module, Eagle, was approaching the moon’s surface, its computers began flashing warning messages. For a moment Mission Control faced a “go / no-go” decision,...

2016年8月17日 · In 2009, Margaret Hamilton and fellow MIT software engineers described what is was like to contribute to the Apollo missions 40 years after the famous Apollo 11 landing in the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility in July 1969.

2024年3月12日 · Today, we spotlight Margaret Hamilton, one of the most consequential yet under-appreciated figures in space exploration. Margaret Hamilton led the software team enabling Apollo 11 astronauts to land safely on the moon.

Neil Armstrong owed his moon walk on July 20, 1969 to a former high school teacher named Margaret Hamilton. It took more than 40 years for her to receive the recognition she deserved. Three minutes before the Apollo 11 lunar lander Eagle reached the moon’s surface, computer alarms went off.

Dive into the extraordinary story of Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering software engineer behind the Apollo moon missions. This article explores how Hamilton’s innovations in software engineering helped land astronauts on the moon and paved the way for modern computing.

2021年10月4日 · Landing men on the moon with just over 32,000 bits of Random Access Memory (that’s 0.004 megabytes!) probably wasn’t the kind of high-wire act that Margaret Heafield Hamilton imagined for...

2023年7月20日 · On the anniversary of the moon landing, which occurred on July 20, 1969, at 20:17:40 UTC, we decided to pay tribute to Margaret Hamilton, the woman behind the code that made the success of this great mission possible. Who was Margaret Hamilton and how did she contribute to the moon landing?

2016年8月17日 · A brief history of the famous 1969 Margaret Hamilton photo featuring the Apollo software she and her team developed for NASA, sending humans to the moon. Article includes rarely-seen outtakes of Hamilton and her code from the MIT Museum.