Great Minds: Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton is a pioneer for women in STEM, and her team's software saved Apollo 11's moon landing! This video was made in collaboration with & sponsored by http://www.emerson.com/ilovestem...
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So you’re on your way to the Moon. It’s been a long trip, and just as you’re finally about to land, your spaceship’s computer starts to spit out error message after error message. This is an extremely non-ideal situation, and sounds really terrifying, and it’s exactly what happened to the astronauts on Apollo 11, the first mission that landed humans on the Moon. In the end, the astronauts landed safely -- and Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist who worked for NASA in the 1960s and 70s, was why. Margaret rose through the ranks to eventually become the head of the Apollo flight software development team -- and a pioneer for women in STEM fields. Hamilton has spent her life focused on errors: how to prevent them, and how to keep everything ...
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So you’re on your way to the Moon. It’s been a long trip, and just as you’re finally about to land, your spaceship’s computer starts to spit out error message after error message. This is an extremely non-ideal situation, and sounds really terrifying, and it’s exactly what happened to the astronauts on Apollo 11, the first mission that landed humans on the Moon. In the end, the astronauts landed safely -- and Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist who worked for NASA in the 1960s and 70s, was why. Margaret rose through the ranks to eventually become the head of the Apollo flight software development team -- and a pioneer for women in STEM fields. Hamilton has spent her life focused on errors: how to prevent them, and how to keep everything ...
