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What an incredible rabbit hole. Margaret Hamilton, awarded the Presidential Meda...
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What an incredible rabbit hole. Margaret Hamilton, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for "[leading] the team that created the on-board flight software" for the Apollo missions, wasn't even hired until after the completed software had already flown to the moon in Apollo 8!
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Feb 25
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https://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/1/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/apollo/public/conference1/hamilton-intro.htm… Here is where she says Dan Lickly put her in charge, in other sources you can learn that this happened after Apollo 8 (Dec 1968), and that she married him before Apollo 11
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