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Humanists UK
@humanists.uk

She wrote all that code by hand and it landed on the moon. Such an iconic photo. Here’s to Margaret Hamilton (1936–2026). What an incredible and pioneering woman for science. An inspiration to us all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukMargaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the moon, dies at 90Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Humanists UK
@humanists.uk

In 1969, the software that landed humans on the moon was written by a team led by Margaret Hamilton. When the computer overloaded minutes before touchdown, her code kept the mission alive.

UK Metric Association
@ukma.org.uk

Another little-known fact is that the Apollo Guidance Computer software used the metric system to land on the Moon. "There are two kinds of country. Those that have used the metric system to land on the Moon, and those haven't been to the Moon". bsky.app/profile/ukma...

UK Metric Association@ukma.org.uk

#OTD 56 years ago, 👨‍🚀 man first landed on the Moon 🌑 MYTH: NASA didn't use the #metric system to go to the Moon FACT: The Lunar Module’s onboard Apollo Guidance Computer used SI units during the computer-controlled phases of the craft’s descent to the Moon ukma.org.uk/why-metric/m... #mythbusted

Vin Kennedy
@vinkennedy.bsky.social

Truly unique and groundbreaking code. A true pioneer. Here's how the programs were stored. Core rope memory. Margaret's code was not only effective but fabulously tightly written and used 72KB of storage, a minuscule amount of memory by today's standards. A PC with 16GB RAM is 233,000 times bigger