How a Young Software Engineer Saved the Moon Landing

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How Margaret Hamilton’s dedication to detecting errors saved Apollo 11.

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Thumbnail source:
Margaret Hamilton photo: Draper Laboratory/MIT Museum

Sources:
1:14 Chensiyuan., CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Articles referenced in video:
3:35 The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/13/margaret-hamilton-computer-scientist-interview-software-apollo-missions-1969-moon-landing-nasa-women