Apollo, Margaret Hamilton and NASA
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Hamilton Wrote Software that Delivered Astronauts to the Moon Margaret Hamilton’s pioneering work helped carry humanity
Margaret Hamilton, a pioneering computer scientist who helped establish the field of software engineering and led the MIT team that developed the onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo moon missions,
Gemini astronauts risked their lives to prove that spacewalking was possible.
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The real reason Apollo 18, 19, and 20 were canceled
Twelve people walked on the Moon, all between July 1969 and December 1972. Hardware for at least three more missions was already being built or planned when the program stopped. That gap raises an obvious question about why NASA left finished rockets unused.