[Hellion]

It’s worth noting that this tweet thread makes some major mistakes, both in dates and in roles. For example, while she was hired by NASA after Apollo 8, she had already been working in a substantial capacity on Apollo software at the Draper lab at mit, which was contracted/hired to do the work. Much of the software written for and by NASA at that time was not actually written by engineers under NASA’s employ.

Which is to say, by the time, NASA hired her she had been working on the software for many years. And, additionally, she had been working on similar software even before that!

I think that it would be safe to describe that Twitter thread as suffering from a deviation from reality.

[MrBuddyCasino]

He is making that correction regarding her timeline of employment/coding work himself in this thread. If you want to dismiss the entire thread due to a self-admitted correction thats your prerogative.

[Hellion]

That was just one example of an egregious mistake. There are more, many more.

also, It’s the fundamental claim of the thread, and it casts the rest of the logic into doubt. His correction is just as un based in reality and also has errors.

[ZeroGravitas]

The linked tweet is:

> What an incredible rabbit hole. Margaret Hamilton, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for "[leading] the team that created the on-board flight software" for the Apollo missions, wasn't even hired until after the completed software had already flown to the moon in Apollo 8!

Which seems to be the bit that was corrected.