In software development you’ll hear the term “moon shot”. If something is a “moon shot” it’s something that’s extraordinarily difficult, like landing on the moon. We say this about some app doing something cool, but what about the software that… landed us on the moon? What was the original “moon shot” all about? The Software That Put Us on the Moon Meet Margaret Hamilton. She was the director of Software engineering at MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which was contracted ...
