Buzz Aldrin is an American engineer and former astronaut. As the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, he was one of the first two humans to land on the Moon, and the second person to walk on it. He set foot on the Moon at 03:15:16 on July 21, 1969 (UTC), following mission commander Neil Armstrong. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer with the Command Pilot rating.
Aldrin was born in Glen Ridge, N.J., on Jan. 20, 1930. After high school, he opted to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and joined the U.S. Air Force as a second lieutenant. After a decorated military career, Aldrin was selected to join NASA's team of astronauts in October 1963. Aldrin's first words when he walked on the moon were "beautiful view, magnificent desolation."
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin
For more pics of moon landing : https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums/
His recent interview: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2377740/Buzz-Aldrin-Neil-Armstrong-thought-moon-beautiful-I-thought-desolate.html
Margaret Heafield Hamilton is a computer scientist, systems engineer and business owner. She was Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. In 1986, she became the founder and CEO of Hamilton Technologies, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was developed around the Universal Systems Language based on her paradigm of Development Before the Fact for systems and software design.
Hamilton has published over 130 papers, proceedings, and reports concerned with the 60 projects and six major programs in which she has been involved.
On July 20, 1969 the Apollo 11 astronauts succeeded in their goal, landing with near-flawless precision. Shortly after, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took humanity’s first historic steps on another world. And if you aren’t aware, Margaret Hamilton is the engineer who got us there. She took humanity to the Moon.
Hamilton wrote the code for Apollo 11’s on-board flight software, and as a result of her work, she received NASA’s Exceptional Space Act Award. If that’s not enough, she is also credited with coining the term “software engineering.”
Margaret Hamilton with the code that she wrote for Apollo 11
Hamilton during her time as lead Apollo flight software designer.
This is my first blog, and liked the achievement of an women, so publishing here. A great respect to her.
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist) & Images from Google.
