Gallery: Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself

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    Margaret Hamilton inside a mock-up of the Apollo command module.
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    NASA
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    Hamilton stands next to listings of the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) source code.
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    Courtesy Margaret Hamilton
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    Hamilton with one of her former colleagues on April 19, 1962. Hamilton was developing software on the first AN/FSQ-7 computer at Lincoln Labs. Hamilton’s software program was a radar registration surveillance program used for detecting potential enemy planes.
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    Courtesy Margaret Hamilton
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    Hamilton and her daughter Lauren.
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    Hamilton, far left, sits with some of her staff in the Scama room at MIT, while supporting the Apollo 8 mission.
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    A Raytheon worker weaving copper wires through magnetic rings.
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    “Little Old Ladies” of Raytheon.
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    Close-up view of Raytheon copper wires.
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