> When it came to hiring women for engineering or management, NASA “had a few women, and they kept them hidden,” says Ms. Densmore. “At the lab it was very diff

> When it came to hiring women for engineering or management, NASA “had a few women, and they kept them hidden,” says Ms. Densmore. “At the lab it was very different,” and there were opportunities for women. Quite amazing what an important role women like Margaret Hamilton played in the Apollo project, given how hard it is nowadays to get more women into engineering positions. You may remember the famous picture of Hamilton next to the stack of code she and her team wrote for Apollo: see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_...