Margaret
Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton: The
Untold Story of the Woman
Who Took Us to the Moon.
Meet the woman who made
Apollo 11 and our trip to the
Moon possible.
More about Margaret
Hamilton
Expertise
Hamilton had a wide range of expertise
including
» Systems design
» Software development
» Methods for maximizing software
reliability and reuse
» Error detection and recovery
techniques
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Margaret's
Code
In the picture on the right, Margaret
Hamilton, lead software engineer of the
Apollo Project, stands next to the code
she wrote by hand and that was used
to take humanity to the moon. [1969]
"In this picture, I am standing next to
listings of the actual Apollo Guidance
Computer (AGC) source code,"
Hamilton says in an email. "To clarify,
there are no other kinds of printouts,
like debugging printouts, or logs, or
what you have, in the picture." It's just
her and her code.
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Margaret’s Major
Achievements
Margaret was assigned to design a program to tell
the computer what to do if the mission aborted.
She designed the computer to take priorities into
account which is what made the Apollo mission
successful after an error had occurred. Margaret
and her team were responsible for developing in-
flight software. She mainly focused and worked
detecting system errors and recovering information
in a computer crash. No bugs were ever found in
the in-flight software for any crewed Apollo mission
» it true that:
1. The photo depicts Margaret Hamilton.
2. Margaret Hamilton was the lead software
engineer of the Apollo Project.
3. Margaret Hamilton wrote the depicted code by
hand.
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Lunar Landing
Mission
Apollo 11 was the first manned
mission to land on the Moon. The first
steps by humans on another planetary
body were taken by Neil Armstrong
and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969.
Apollo 11 achieved its primary mission
- to perform a manned lunar landing
and return the mission safely to Earth
- and paved the way for the Apollo
lunar landing missions to follow.
Apollo 11
Apollo's Goals Facts about Apollo 11
mission
» The national effort that enabled • Apollo 11 was the first mission
Astronaut Neil Armstrong to speak that achieved a crewed moon
those words as he stepped onto the landing.
lunar surface fulfilled a dream as old as • It took the spacecraft 76 hours
humanity. Project Apollo's goals went to reach the moon.
beyond landing Americans on the • The rocket was called Saturn V.
moon and returning them safely to
• There were five other missions
Earth. They included:
that landed on the moon after
• Establishing the technology to meet
Apollo 11.
other national interests in space.
• Achieving preeminence in space for the
• Apollo 11’s landing was
United States. broadcasted on live television.
• Carrying out a program of scientific • They landed on a rock-filled
exploration of the Moon. crater.
• Developing human capability to work in • The crew landed on the Pacific
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