Apollo, Margaret Hamilton and NASA
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Gemini astronauts risked their lives to prove that spacewalking was possible.
Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service module.
Almost forgotten now, the mission circled the Earth for 10 days, performing a series of tests with the lunar lander. What it lacked in glory it made up for in technological contributions. By Kenneth Chang It’s the most iconic image of our planet.
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led NASA's Apollo lunar program software development, has died at 90, MIT announced.