Margaret Hamilton, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom

What an incredible rabbit hole. Margaret Hamilton, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for "[leading] the team that created the on-board flight software" for the Apollo missions, wasn't even hired until after the completed software had already flown to the moon in Apollo 8! https://t.co/FT3Vi7Qd7n pic.twitter.com/xGICM7okcU

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