Great Minds: Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton is a pioneer for women in STEM, and her team’s software saved Apollo 11’s moon landing!
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Sources:
http://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/1/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/apollo/public/conference1/hamilton-intro.htm
http://klabs.org/home_page/hamilton.htm
http://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html
Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself
http://www.vox.com/2015/5/30/8689481/margaret-hamilton-apollo-software
http://www.nasa.gov/50th/50th_magazine/scientists.html
http://mentalfloss.com/article/64941/meet-woman-behind-apollo-project
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1313407
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Margaret_Hamilton_1989.jpg
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Margaret_Hamilton_in_action.jpg
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_CSM_lunar_orbit.jpg
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dsky.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_1024_bit_core_memory_module.jpg
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_25.html
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