Apollo 11 50th Anniversary: Meet The Woman Who Put Men On The Moon | TODAY

TODAY continues celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission with an exclusive from NBC’s Harry Smith. He sits down with Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering software programmer whose work led to the first steps on the moon.

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[spearhead]

Margret was one of the GIANTS of apollo.!! I salute her along with her colleagues for their genius.!!!!

[rafflesmaos]

Being a programmer myself, Mrs Hamilton is one of my all time computing world heroes, especially given the difficulties, magnitudes, and pressures of the tasks that she faced. I can only hope to one day gain at least a small fraction of her skill and experience. Best of wishes to her on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11.

[joes.]

50 years ago today, man set foot on the moon. What a wonderful world we get to experience....

[RickyJr]

Speaking on behalf of an 11 year old kid who was absolutely fascinated by all things Space Program, thank you Margaret Hamilton for these important contributions and for not letting yourself be run off the playground!

[alecaquino]

I love this story. It's upsetting I'm only now hearing about it. Good women (like good men) come in all shapes and sizes. Just like my mom! Love you mom!

[JungleYT]

Well, God bless her... I'm glad to see she's still around. She looks great!

[faybeharry]

I love that answer and I am going to use it."you do what's right for you and I'll do what's right for me."

[hunahpuyamamoto]

This story is a tad overblown.

The alarms came up in a simulation prior to the A11 launch. It caused the controllers to fail the sim. Steve Bales was charged with learning all the codes, their meanings, and the appropriate response.

That gave him confidence to say “Go” (continue) when the alarm came up during the real landing phase.

Margaret Hamilton was a rare female doing development in that era, but she was not the only one. She was part of a great team (there were 300+ people working on it).

Note her modesty. It’s ALWAYS the media who blows up things to suit their agenda. It’s a good story but to her it was just another day at the office.

[mediawatcher]

Without Margaret Hamilton, we would’ve never had made that accomplishment!

[harpothehealer]

One of the greatest things of the 20th Century, but sadly for me I remember as a young kid at school been bored senseless made to sit with all the the other kids in silence and watch almost unwatchable pictures as the event happened or had just happened.If I remember rightly I had watched some of it just before i left for school anyway. So at that juncture I couldn't get very excited about it . However, a fantastc accomplishment and maxime respect to these three great men, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins.

[GeneralUSA]

The on board computer was programmed for launch all the way downto landing. The final location to land was not entered because we were not scheduled to land on the liner surface with 8. Without those coordinates. Apollo/LEM went into unpredictable and violent jerking and rolling motions ...nothing stopped these irregular behavior. 3 atronauts crammed into the LEM to escape the violent behavior of the Apollo. When someone thought to enter 01 into the computer which cleared and reset the programming sequence and thus stopped the violent motions. That’s what happened. After which it was discovered that orbit was decaying very rapidly and a burst from the LEM s rocket engine propelled the astronauts in both ships to a safer distance.

[larsanderson]

And, Margaret Hamilton is 1 million times smarter than most of us.

[beautyistifanus]

We ARE PROUD OF INTELLIGENT WOMEN flowers 💐 ❤️ Queen 👸 💖

[ujgilani]

The point, is she the only person who wrote that code... If yes I have a great respect for this lady. But I think the whole team worked on the code.. Then why just promoting her? Why not celebrate everyone who was the part of that team? If We are promoting her Just because she is a woman than it doesn't make any sense...

[AxelWerner]

?! LEGO made WOMEN of Space Age ?!?!? ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!!

[erikpeterson]

WOW!! GREAT to see this ....
did not know ...

[bivideo]

"Hamilton, and the team..." She was a brilliant 1/400, 000 of the Apollo program. Would someone confirm exactly who developed the Executive Override protocol...? There seems to be some disagreement...

[wavecutter]

To think.. some AI will be reflecting on this moment.... the first computer on the moon..

[guitarman]

No one would be more worthy of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Look what she did. Last one went to Gary Player? Am I missing something?

[xres]

The video is great and thousand thanx (OK-make it a million-a few Zeros between friends...). There were greater the effects of women at NASA-than just one expects from geniuses. Their catalyst role in getting very talented but very male workaholics function in a team (and a good team at that)...can not be illustrated.💖🤳