This is a photo of Margaret Hamilton the programmer standing next to the handwritten source codes for the Apollo navigation computers.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Margaret_Hamilton.gif?hl=en-US
Yes, she just turned 90. Amazing career even after the Apollo program
She’s also in a Lego set!
Kubrick did actually film a fake version of the moon landing, but he was such a perfectionist that he made them film it on location … thus making the fake moon landing real
In all seriousness, who was this really? Wasn’t she some computer science pioneer or something?
Margaret Hamilton: https://science.nasa.gov/people/margaret-hamilton/
False, that’s Daniel Radcliffe in one of his quirky post HP roles
To think that two feminist icons would be named Margaret Hamilton
Oh, if her middle name was Alexandria
Ah right, thanks!
She coined the term “software engineering,” was the first software engineet, and also led NASA’s software engineering division for the moon landing.
She led the team that did the code for the moon landing.
For a while this picture was used with a caption saying she wrote the whole thing by hand. What she did was impressive enough without needing to lie.
This is Chloe Sevigny reviewing the blow job scene in Brown Bunny.
This is a quality shitpost right here. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.
I don’t want to be that guy… however:
The connections she made on set are how Jack Black got his start Hollywood
See, it was a hoax. There’s the script for the fake landing footage
We finally have proof
I didn’t know Capricorn-1 was a Kubrick movie, TIL.
All that work and Neil Armstrong STILL fluffed his lines!
If Kubrick had filmed a fake moon landing the conspiracy wouldn’t exist. The nimrods that believe that shit couldn’t begin to fathom how much of an insane perfectionist he was, he’d have created his own moon
I like your way of thinking here. I’m honestly not sure if the actual geologists working on lunar soil simulants today are more hardcore than Kubrick was back then.
With all the cuts to NASA and the American scientific enterprise generally, we could use this kind of angel perfectionist director these days. I wonder if Denis Villeneuve could be convinced to forget about Arrakis for a while and work closer to home…
How is that going to help with the NASA budget?
It won’t, certainly not directly. It would help individual scientists if they can land funding from non-governmental sources, though.
That’s the first draft script of 2001, as written by an old-fashioned AI ‘expert system.’
Kubrik decided it was more cost-effective to just have HAL sing ‘Daisy, Daisy.’
She has such a cute smile lol
She’s amazing
Real talk: I heard somewhere that this is Jack Black’s Mom.
Easy to confuse, but Judith Love Cohen was an electrical engineer who worked on the Apollo program, as well. She’s credited with work that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts. She later became Jack Black’s mom.
She’s so fine
As of 2026, Science has solved about half of the Van Allen Belt radiation problem for human space travel.
I wonder why that script could fill more than a dozen books. Must have been really long and complicated!
