Margaret Hamilton, NASA’s lead developer for Apollo program, stands next to all the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969

  • coys25
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    1 year ago

    That is cool. There is really wild stuff in here, like in the landing guidance equations

    		TC	BANKCALL	# TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE
    		CADR	STOPRATE	# TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE
    
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      1 year ago

      If I was an Astronaut, I think I’d reconsider going up if someone told me there was even one “I Hope” in the math.

      “Are you sure about that Margaret?”
      “Who the fuck knows, Buzz, I’m doing my fucking best, okay?!”