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by nickpsecurity
3492 days ago
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The source of that claim she and her team were behind both programs' code was this paper: http://klabs.org/history/history_docs/mit_docs/1711.pdf On p20 of PDF reader, it says this: "Names notable here are Dr James Miller for the first lunar program SUNBURST, Dr Frederic Martin for the Command Module program COLOSSUS, and George Cherry for the Lunar Module program LUMINARY. These last two were the programs used for the lunar landing missions... [next paragraph] Much of the detailed code of these programs was written by a team of specialists led by Margaret Hamilton. The task assignments to these individuals included, in addition to writing the code, the testing to certify the programming element met requirements." Goes on to say they had to be error free and were. That was what the NASA press releases and other writings on her team said was essentially their specialty. Consistent so far with claims about her if that author got the right information from the right people. It's hard to say without talking to him about where those claims came from. I do note he's writing on behalf of the laboratory named after one of them (Draper) citing that guy's work along with other solid-looking references. Edit to add that I just noticed his name in the Apollo code you submitted. He apparently was on the team, too. Now I consider his write-up authorative. |
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