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The first footsteps on the moon belonged to two men, but they may never have made it there if not for Margaret Hamilton.
The software engineer developed the onboard computer programs that powered NASA's Apollo missions, including the 1969 moon landing.
So, it's only fitting that in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, a portrait of the bespectacled pioneer reflected the light of the moon.
Not just Hidden Figures? Click on the full article to see the display.
Hamilton effectively invented the term "software engineer" with her work developing the Apollo guidance computer, the lifeline for astronauts that controlled the spacecraft, Google said in announcing the artistic honor.
She regularly brought her young daughter, Lauren, to work with her on weekends, according to the search giant. Lauren played in the simulator that her mother built to test in-flight programs and inadvertently led Hamilton to rethink her strategy.
Lauren once crashed the simulator, ending the mission prematurely by hitting a button while the craft was in flight.
So, Hamilton programmed backstops to prevent an astronaut from doing the same midflight, a mistake that would yield far more dire consequences in space, Google says.
"There was no second chance. We knew that," Hamilton wrote in 2009 for MIT. "We had to find a way and we did."
Whatever you do, do not push the big red button, M'kay?
See also: These 6 Accidents Nearly Derailed Apollo 11's Mission to the Moon
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 20 2019, @07:36PM (3 children)
That is only because the russian hackers stole the last presidential election from Hillary. It was her turn.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday July 20 2019, @07:39PM (1 child)
I await America's first Russian and female President.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 21 2019, @12:13PM
I present to you Donald "Dimitri" Trump. Russian backed and fairly feminine as well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 21 2019, @12:29AM
Well, what would you have come up with as a coverup? Magical Russian rapist incel hackers is pretty scary. What else is one supposed to do? Admit that you're losing to Nazis, call for new leadership at the highest levels, hang your head and resign your multi-million dollar intercontinental estate? /s
Software engineers could organize and refuse to work on projects that have been taken over by the creepy rapists in marketing departments, always talking about penetration and doing surveys with their male gaze. Marketers and advertising agencies are incels who believed that personal computers should not be marketed to young women and girls in the 1980s. Marketers are the incels who can't figure out how to increase sales of computational devices to girls, despite their popularity with boys, because girls were probably dismissed from the outset by the old boys club in advertising.