Margaret Hamilton: MIT Software Pioneer Who Helped Save Apollo 11 Moon Mission

(CBS) – Imagine the moment as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were descending toward the moon, a few minutes away from landing in the Sea of Tranquility. Civilization’s most historic event was within eyesight when a program alarm was set off by the Apollo Guidance Computer.
The unforeseen alarm was something neither Armstrong nor Aldrin came across in their training simulations. Almost every other alarm code they had encountered would lead to an abort. After travelling over 950,000 mi