Note that if the Apollo flight software had been designed differently the Apollo 11 landing could easily have been unsuccessful or disastrous. Margaret Hamilton

Note that if the Apollo flight software had been designed differently the Apollo 11 landing could easily have been unsuccessful or disastrous. Margaret Hamilton's work deserves a lot of credit for that, it was a very advanced and robust design for the time and for the resource constraints (4k of ram, etc.): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist)#Apollo_11 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist)#A...