NASA’s First Software Engineer Wrote the Code for the Moon Landing by Hand | Bold & Untold by MAKERS
Margaret Hamilton, NASA’s First Software Engineer
They should be household names, but instead they’re hidden figures. Not anymore. In our new MAKERS series, we highlight the activists, advocates, and all-around awesome women who have been ripped out of modern history books. These are fearless feminists who put man on the moon and girls on the pitcher’s mound; transformed male-dominated industries like finance and construction; and paved the way for others succeed.
Video Transcript
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MARGARET HAMILTON: They announced that they were looking for people to do programming to send man to the moon. And I just thought, wow, I've got to go there. I certainly came up with the term in our world. And it was considered a joke. The software was on the ground and on the moon.
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On reflection, we were doing things that hadn't been done. It was something that we were dreaming of happening. But it became real.
