It was all a lie and she came after the work was done and was only hired because of her husband.

A team of 400 men worked for years to create the software for the two Apollo AGCs. Sometime around the release date, Hamilton is hired and promoted *by her husband* from a beginner role to be in charge of command module software, on which her name does not appear until 1969.

— AnechoicMedia (@AnechoicMedia_) February 25, 2023

Below is a contemporary source of Apollo computer hardware and software development personnel over the course of the program.

The software is finalized and delivered in 1968, and flies to the moon in Apollo 8. The first release with Margaret Hamilton in charge is at the end. pic.twitter.com/xiDrI0ASMZ

— AnechoicMedia (@AnechoicMedia_) February 25, 2023

"I've encountered no discrimination at all" says woman with same last name as the man who hired and promoted her.

"Hamilton, Mrs. Dan Lickly": another women in tech success story. pic.twitter.com/q01J0yEvem

— AnechoicMedia (@AnechoicMedia_) February 25, 2023

Not only did Hamilton not lead Apollo software as implied, but her entire tenure in the program is suspect because 100% of it was arranged by her husband, who hired her, mentored her as she was given a small team, then promoted her immediately before their marriage.

— AnechoicMedia (@AnechoicMedia_) February 25, 2023

Thanks to leftist infiltration into history academia, stories like this that are nothing but lies keep getting pushed.

A lot of "history" taught both past and present was and is a sham. Always be untrusting of just about anything that sounds like a movie script. But this has been going on for all of human history.

Facts are meaningless when you have a mob of angry Red Guards ready to get you fired for daring to suggest your racist facts are more correct than their "moral" socialist history

She wrote nothing for Apollo. Huge deflection.

All those books of code...

Amazing anything worked in that archaic (compared to today) system.

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All those books of code...

Amazing anything worked in that archaic (compared to today) system.

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my dad wrote code for the shuttle avionics.

we have boxes of manuals, code books, schematics etc in his house.

plus we have punch card stuff from gemini, skylab, apollo

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I remember the punch cards for programming from the 70s. My mother worked for NBA, National Bank of Alaska, when we were stationed at Elmendorf AFB, the first time, in the 70s and brought some home.

My aunt didn't do software, but she was one of the ladies who soldered the circuit boards for the Apollo missions at E-Systems in Greenville. Highly classified of course and nobody outside of her children had any idea until we heard it in the eulogy at her funeral.

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Ugh, getting flashbacks to my Fortran class at A&M back in 1990...

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Ugh, getting flashbacks to my Fortran class at A&M back in 1990...

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flashbacks of WILBUR

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Ugh, getting flashbacks to my Fortran class at A&M back in 1990...

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COBOL wit Dr. George Fowler!

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I hated that freaking class! Also did a COBOL internship at UCS and vowed to do anything else in tech so long as it wasn't writing and maintaining COBOL.

Re: "COBOL wit Dr. George Fowler!"

Aaaagh... I am pretty sure I had him as a COBOL prof. circa '86.

He had a mustache... he came into the lecture hall one day with no mustache. He told us he had to be clean shaven for a new military photo.

Final exam was the output that was not correct... had to hand write in pencil the code on one of those sheets that would lead to the correct output.

When I found out I passed that COBOL class, barely I might add, I was 100% grateful

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All those books of code...

Amazing anything worked in that archaic (compared to today) system.

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my dad wrote code for the shuttle avionics.

we have boxes of manuals, code books, schematics etc in his house.

plus we have punch card stuff from gemini, skylab, apollo

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I remember the punch cards for programming from the 70s. My mother worked for NBA, National Bank of Alaska, when we were stationed at Elmendorf AFB, the first time, in the 70s and brought some home.

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I used those punch cards for our IBM... I remember walking across campus with a stack and then dropping the box on the desk... The cards went everywhere. Took me an hour to sort it out.
FYI We hired "stackers" to do this job (i was a lowly grad student). I bet our "hero" was a stacker.

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Ugh, getting flashbacks to my Fortran class at A&M back in 1990...

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Had it at San Antonio College in about 89/90.

"Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future."

My wife (then my girlfriend) and I took that class together. I couldn't code for crap but I could type like a mf. She wrote and I punched cards. We made a good team.

Had Dr Fowler around 2001. Great guy. Super proud of being from Webb County.

Going back to the OP. That woman must've had the most amazing abilities in the sack. She was dog ugly even in her "prime" years.

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My aunt didn't do software, but she was one of the ladies who soldered the circuit boards for the Apollo missions at E-Systems in Greenville. Highly classified of course and nobody outside of her children had any idea until we heard it in the eulogy at her funeral.

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Why would that be classified? Maybe the details of the board schematics were classified, but surely not her employment.

Oh wow. Shocking news. Next thing you know, Hollywood will be making a movie about how 3 black women enabled John Glenn's space flight.

Oh wait…

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My aunt didn't do software, but she was one of the ladies who soldered the circuit boards for the Apollo missions at E-Systems in Greenville. Highly classified of course and nobody outside of her children had any idea until we heard it in the eulogy at her funeral.

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Why would that be classified? Maybe the details of the board schematics were classified, but sure not her employment.

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Fear of sabotage IIRC. Also, the Apollo mission wasn't the only project she worked on. She was also involved with circuit boards for the presidential fleet (AF1 and support craft) as well as any number of defense communications and spy stuff. It was all classified and she didn't talk about any of it. She was a fantastic cook and any visitors were too busy eating and talking family to ever delve too far into her work away from home.

This reminds me of how Katie Bouman initially received sole credit for the black hole image but luckily that story fell apart before it could take hold in the history books.

Had a young, cool BANA prof back in the 70's teaching us Fortran and a bit of COBOL. He leaves for private industry. Next semester he's back teaching. Asked him why he came back. He says "They expect results in the real world"!

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I remember walking across campus with a stack and then dropping the box on the desk... The cards went everywhere. Took me an hour to sort it out.

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I always referred to this as first generation distributed computing in a class I taught.

The whole thing is a farce
Why does this surprise anyone?

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All those books of code...

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Now "program" that code into memory...

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Ugh, getting flashbacks to my Fortran class at A&M back in 1990...

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I hated Fortran, the punch cards, the waiting on the results, the treks to the computer shack....

Fast forward to 1970, after my adventure in Vietnam, and me and another Aggie engineer used Fortran complete with punch cards, to write the first stream modeling program for the City of Dallas. It wasn't as bad there because I was single and the time and the computer operator was a hot girl.

I bet you had Dr Grams at SAC. Wonderful woman.

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Ugh, getting flashbacks to my Fortran class at A&M back in 1990...

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Try Fortran at A&M in '77..."Do Loops", will never forget that term...and all the punch cards...waiting in line to run them. Nostalgia...not always a good thing.