Margaret Hamilton, NASA's First Software Engineer

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  • Опубліковано 18 лип 2017
  • When it comes to Margaret Hamilton's career, she literally shoots for the moon. Hamilton discusses joining NASA as their first software engineer and creating the software that launched the Apollo 11 first manned mission to the moon.

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  • @ChristopherMilnevcm
    @ChristopherMilnevcm 5 років тому +254

    I have taught my six-year old daughter about this woman. Ms. Hamilton is part of our 'pantheon of heros.' My daughter wants to be a scientist.

    • @mcjones853
      @mcjones853 5 років тому +10

      I can totally tell your exactly the kind of parent I cringe at. Don’t dote on your daughter on social media. We get it you love and cherish your daughter. There are 6 billion people in this world and counting. I can promise you your daughter is average like the rest of us. But with great guidance. I’m sure she will be a great member of society. I wish you the best.

    • @bozz1g
      @bozz1g 5 років тому +1

      @@mcjones853 exactly, pay attention to this guy Chris

    • @bozz1g
      @bozz1g 5 років тому +2

      @@mcjones853 exactly, pay attention to this guy Chris

    • @berndheiden7630
      @berndheiden7630 3 роки тому +10

      @@mcjones853
      No, we are not all average like the rest. And when you are honest you don‘t want an average brain surgeon and you don‘t want to fly with an average pilot and if you want it on a slightly smaller scale (and my turf) you don‘t want to have an average dentist surgically removing your wisdom teeth or put in an average crown on a front tooth. Never be content to be just average!

    • @Pyllolla
      @Pyllolla 3 роки тому +4

      please let her do science

  • @MeriaDuck
    @MeriaDuck 3 роки тому +20

    Why, having studied computer science in the nineties, being alive for the last 45 years, am I only NOW becoming aware of Margaret Hamilton?

    • @MarquisDeSang
      @MarquisDeSang 2 роки тому

      Because the "Chosen People" want you to listen to brain damaging Hip-Hop and turn women into useless whores.

    • @alvinsmith3894
      @alvinsmith3894 5 місяців тому

      She's a woman. As a man it's a fact that women are always disrespected to this extent. Our fellow men need to reflect on how awful most of us are.

  • @seniorlocalguide
    @seniorlocalguide 3 роки тому +5

    Margaret Hamilton is a real-life superwoman... Yet, she is so modest, endearing and low key. I can't even begin to fathom her impossible accomplishment on a 32K ROM in Apollo 11 and the Apollo program... And she's the one who coined "Software Engineering"!

  • @deborahlee8312
    @deborahlee8312 5 років тому +63

    Thank you Margaret Hamilton! I played this video for 3 classes today in middle and high school. I dressed up at Ms. Hamilton for Halloween, and we learned about her contribution to science and engineering.

  • @cutnuramna7243
    @cutnuramna7243 5 років тому +39

    Amazing woman. And she did it while being a wife and a mother. Wonderful!

  • @om3galul989
    @om3galul989 2 роки тому +8

    The pleasure of being involved in a historical achievement is immeasurable.

  • @lizgoldstein4256
    @lizgoldstein4256 5 років тому +24

    Extraordinary person. I can’t believe she’s 81 here.

  • @beakittelscherz5419
    @beakittelscherz5419 5 років тому +15

    She brought her daughter to work...and that saved a lot of lives...AND the moonlanding. Thats a movieplot right there...

    • @missionpupa
      @missionpupa 4 роки тому +3

      Quite funny how things turn out. The one thing she could have been discriminated against (being a female/mother) was what was needed in that moment. Adults are too careful to find errors.

  • @glennwoodruff2398
    @glennwoodruff2398 Рік тому +3

    The software she invented at the company she started in Cambridge is also clever and amazing and very difficult to do. But it works beautifully. She is a true programming genius. God bless her.

  • @dhairyabhatt3156
    @dhairyabhatt3156 5 років тому +108

    We need movie based on this HOLLYWOOD

    • @blonduose
      @blonduose 5 років тому +2

      yes i am against hollywood movies but yes !

    • @gregh7457
      @gregh7457 5 років тому +7

      @@blonduose yea knowing hollyweird they would do some fancy cgi and rewrite her life story. I'de settle for a pbs documentary

    • @blonduose
      @blonduose 5 років тому +2

      @FightWorldSlavery yea because women usually dont get credit for their work you dumba-s. Just because you are uneducated and don't know a thing you dont have to comment stupid things, when you have read approx 200 books and articles on feminism, like I have, we can talk. Meanwhie: shut up

    • @blonduose
      @blonduose 5 років тому +1

      @FightWorldSlavery yea sure you have much knowledge :D man you are another specimen of a dumb man. Good job on that really

    • @rjl7655
      @rjl7655 4 роки тому

      hollywood is to morally-corrupt and stupid to base a movie on her AS THEY SHOULD...

  • @jaydee5156
    @jaydee5156 5 років тому +73

    I grew up with the space program, from Mercury to the Shuttle and followed it closely. Until the Shuttle, I think I watched and followed every televised launch. I had never heard of her until just a few short years ago and I'm angry. She should be every bit as well known as the men who flew.

    • @bostonseeker
      @bostonseeker 4 роки тому +6

      The media also obsessively focused on the astronauts and a few top administrators at NASA. The army of engineers and others who had to invent all this stuff that didn't yet exist were barely noticed or understood. Another case was Hamilton's colleague at MIT, Don Eyles, who played the same critical role with the lunar lander.
      The internal NASA histories from the 1970s on did give ample credit to the unsung heroes of Apollo. There was also the massive industrial effort to build the Saturn boosters and make them work properly and not explode, which stretched aerospace engineering to its limit. Remember there was no CAD/CAM or virtual modeling with computers in those days. Look up "saturn booster fuel baffles." It was done with vibration sensors, some x-rays, and very smart guesswork.

    • @RightCenterBack321
      @RightCenterBack321 3 роки тому +1

      Oh stop it. Most (as in nearly all) of the non-astronauts never receive the recognition they deserved. Most of them were men. Are you angry about that?
      Of course not. So, relax and understand, if anything, Hamilton was as obscure as the vast majority of those who never flew in space.

    • @jaydee5156
      @jaydee5156 3 роки тому

      @@RightCenterBack321 I'm glad to see you're finally up from your nap. My comment was from LAST YEAR.

    • @joeturner7959
      @joeturner7959 Рік тому

      @@RightCenterBack321
      She saved the lives of both Aldrin, and Armstrong on the Apollo 11, when the landing computers all went into alarm mode, and she told Gene Kranz, that he should tell Armstrong that it was GO, and Kranz listened to her.
      She saved the lives of Lovell, Haise and Swigert, and was represented in the movie Apollo 13.

    • @JustSujC
      @JustSujC Рік тому +2

      It’s the curse of the engineer. You work so hard for someone else’s dream and someone else will take all the credit. The blessing is that you give life to an object and you know the secret language between you and it. An unspoken bond for eternity.

  • @FromFame
    @FromFame 5 років тому +59

    She’s so cute and eternally youthful

    • @gloverelaxis
      @gloverelaxis 3 роки тому +2

      Let's not call genius computer scientists who pioneered programmed spaceflight as "cute" and "youthful", yeah? God I'm so sick of these fucking knuckledragging sexists in CS.

    • @brianfoss571
      @brianfoss571 3 роки тому +1

      @Jake Stockton Would you describe an 80-year-old man who pioneered computer science by how cute he looks? No? Then why describe Margaret Hamilton that way?
      It's nice when STEM professionals care about how they look. But those aren't their main contributions to the world. Some people can't bring themselves to value women for their brainpower and grit to solve tough problems. Calling someone "cute" doesn't even compliment effort they put into their appearance - that's not a respectful way to describe a fashion designer, let alone a tech pioneer.

    • @brianfoss571
      @brianfoss571 3 роки тому +1

      @FromFame Would it have hurt to describe her as *enthusiastic* , *passionate* , *energetic* , *sharp* , or *witty* ?
      I'm assuming you got all of these impressions from her interview, but is there any reason "cute" and "youthful" were the only two words that came to mind? You wouldn't describe an 80-year-old male software pioneer that way, would you?

    • @HTML5Teacher
      @HTML5Teacher Рік тому

      Here is an old television commercial (from the Apollo era) which features a model who looks like her (sister? - almost _could_ be! ) : ua-cam.com/video/sCslIoWPONM/v-deo.html

  • @StevenBanks123
    @StevenBanks123 4 роки тому +13

    Without her, or so body else, we would never have gotten to the moon. Love the story about her daughter being an accidental focus group and finding a possible error path.

  • @gloverelaxis
    @gloverelaxis 3 роки тому +5

    She's an incredibly impressive and inspiring figure.

  • @uaalien
    @uaalien 5 років тому +8

    Nothing but respect and admiration

  • @LaplacianFourier
    @LaplacianFourier 5 років тому +19

    Wow what an extraordinary person.

  • @tski3458
    @tski3458 6 років тому +17

    I am in awe of what you and you're team did for us. Thank you!

  • @GetMeCoding
    @GetMeCoding 3 роки тому +4

    Thank you for sharing this story! I have shared this with my students for many years and hope that they use it as inspiration as they go forward.

  • @parkpunk2
    @parkpunk2 4 роки тому +2

    That picture of her with her daughter is lovely.

  • @juliemcmanus8678
    @juliemcmanus8678 5 років тому +2

    Truly inspirational

  • @hamiltoncarraropinto3209
    @hamiltoncarraropinto3209 3 роки тому +3

    Para minhas razões fico emocionado com Margarete Hamilton

  • @RodmardosSantosVieira
    @RodmardosSantosVieira 4 роки тому +2

    i love this, very happy in see this vídeo, thanks.

  • @TusharThakur
    @TusharThakur 6 років тому +3

    WOW. Thanks for your service :)

  • @ARTharbour
    @ARTharbour 5 років тому +5

    I don't believe that there are 4 people disliking that amazing video of this AMAZING WOMAN FIGURE. I love you Margaret, adopt me!

  • @laurencecope7083
    @laurencecope7083 Місяць тому

    I'm a self taught hardware engineer. I migrated to software to do hardware testing rigs. Software is easy when you understand what it is doing. The get to know what to tell it to do and understand what it is doing is the difficult bit. A lot of companies I've worked for, had software engineers that did not have a plan for what they were trying to code for. They all failed.

  • @ShanmukhAshikAribandi
    @ShanmukhAshikAribandi 5 років тому +5

    wow, positive vibes ..........things happen only and only when one starts just believe

  • @love-world579
    @love-world579 2 місяці тому

    great scientist and engineer, thank you for your service to the world❤❤

  • @marvismeng1953
    @marvismeng1953 4 роки тому

    This woman is so inspiring

  • @bradleysitsandsipstea33
    @bradleysitsandsipstea33 Рік тому +1

    She deserved that medal 🏅

  • @EthanLandwehr
    @EthanLandwehr 5 років тому +1

    THANKS FOR HELPING ME WITH SOME SCIENCE PROJECTS!!!!!!

  • @murielpereira4507
    @murielpereira4507 6 років тому +7

    you are fab Margaret

  • @missionpupa
    @missionpupa 4 роки тому +1

    A real living legend, we don't have many of these anymore.

  • @Selenitypilum
    @Selenitypilum 4 роки тому

    THANK YOU Margaret for saving the apollo 11 mission.

  • @lucielavigne7396
    @lucielavigne7396 5 років тому

    She's amazing

  • @siusanorourkezigzeitler6870
    @siusanorourkezigzeitler6870 3 роки тому

    Totally AWESOME!

  • @CottonCookie
    @CottonCookie 6 років тому +1

    Amazing!!!!

  • @NitinBansal85
    @NitinBansal85 5 років тому +5

    Wow...A true genius

  • @samaelcoral7297
    @samaelcoral7297 Рік тому +1

    This woman should be more famous

  • @juljams5760
    @juljams5760 4 роки тому +1

    Amazing.

  • @kristofszabo666
    @kristofszabo666 5 місяців тому +1

    Am I correct, that her daughter was (one of) the first manual QA tester in the world? 😄 Margaret is fantastic!

  • @wellingtonjackson2473
    @wellingtonjackson2473 2 роки тому +1

    Muito bom legal sou fã dela ... AIM FROM BRASIL

  • @hakunablossoms9533
    @hakunablossoms9533 5 років тому +1

    Such a amazing woman

  • @slordmo2263
    @slordmo2263 4 роки тому +3

    Yes, known about her accomplishments for along time.... intelligent women were coming of age in the 60s.... we, as a nation, truly recognized this, and gratefully accepted their help, and ingenuity.... I am sure there are many untold stories like this, and as we have seen the 50th anniversary of the 1st moon landing this year, we can look back at the 1960s as a paradoxical decade....war, women's liberation movement, drugs, and stupendous technological innovation... I just hope, and pray, that we can rekindle that need for innovation... or we may be on the decline.... just my 2 cents...

  • @shaylawatson1244
    @shaylawatson1244 11 місяців тому

    She a legend

  • @SC-RGX7
    @SC-RGX7 4 місяці тому +1

    Can't wait for Emma Stone to play her character in a movie about her. We definitely need this, her story, Oppenheimer style.

  • @5000IU
    @5000IU 4 роки тому

    What a hero :)

  • @rkrw576
    @rkrw576 4 роки тому

    Awesome woman.

  • @nisharoka
    @nisharoka Рік тому

    Respect ❤️

  • @durenajaf9633
    @durenajaf9633 9 місяців тому

    How come there is no movie on this amazing lady???Pick up the idea WB, Paramount or Universal Pictures. I want a movie on her❤😭

  • @jonesbbq307
    @jonesbbq307 2 роки тому

    Such a nice video. Why so few views?

  • @taimank
    @taimank 4 роки тому +4

    Wow, we need to put this in a movie, just like Hidden Figures

  • @cx4vr1dh4j
    @cx4vr1dh4j 10 місяців тому

    Great 👍

  • @lesrecettesdulrikeetnico7112
    @lesrecettesdulrikeetnico7112 2 роки тому

    Great !

  • @flower5396
    @flower5396 5 років тому

    What an extraordinary woman.

  • @phenom5817
    @phenom5817 Рік тому +1

    I loved her in The Wizard of Oz

    • @shawnaburns5158
      @shawnaburns5158 4 місяці тому

      Yeah I didn't know she was a engineer/designer very cool❤

  • @richardheinz
    @richardheinz 2 роки тому

    I can't believe NASA put an ad in the paper.

  • @AlexanderDolokhov
    @AlexanderDolokhov 6 років тому +19

    What a woman!!!

  • @febriansyahramdani9078
    @febriansyahramdani9078 5 років тому +1

    Beautiful

  • @anakinskywalkerrr
    @anakinskywalkerrr 4 роки тому +6

    down the earth lady with down to moon intelligent.

  • @user-wf9mi3kt1j
    @user-wf9mi3kt1j 3 роки тому

    At 2:41 you can actually see a piece of a source code on a whiteboard.

  • @alanhoffman-mp2es
    @alanhoffman-mp2es 10 місяців тому

    Margaret!!!

  • @JonathanCalkins
    @JonathanCalkins 4 роки тому +2

    Wow, the amount of knowledge she must hold. Crazy

  • @anthonyaddo8837
    @anthonyaddo8837 6 років тому +2

  • @jerrybear6440
    @jerrybear6440 Рік тому +1

    Wow.....

  • @jakobole
    @jakobole 4 роки тому

    On Apollo 11 - that switch was not in a "Wrong" position. It was the checklist that told Neil and Buzz to do so, and THAT was the error.

    • @blueskies8834
      @blueskies8834 3 роки тому

      It’s more complicated than that. Buzz was the rendezvous expert and he wanted the rendezvous radar on in case they aborted the landing. That way it would be up and running as they looked to find Columbia. They discussed it among the astronauts and sim people and decided to make the checklist change. There was no formal procedure at that time for checklist changes. This change gave the computer to many tasks to do and generated the 1201 & 1202 alarms. The alarms said, I can’t get all the things done you have asked me to so I am only doing the most important ones now. After this all checklist changes had to pass through all departments. The beauty of MS Hamilton’s Programing was that is prioritized all the tasks since the computer could only do so much in a given time.

  • @peterhaitch7507
    @peterhaitch7507 5 років тому +19

    when obama was giving her that award , I noticed ellen , tom hanks de nero etc , omg how are they anything like this woman?? they pale in comparison

    • @missionpupa
      @missionpupa 4 роки тому +1

      Sure, Tom didnt go to the moon or anything like that, but he inspired people in a lot of ways. So, I think he has a lot of value because of that.

    • @missionpupa
      @missionpupa 3 роки тому +1

      @MichaelKingsfordGray You replied to almost a 2 year old comment buddy, you better have a good fuckin excuse for why you replied to me after almost 2 years.
      Im listening.

  • @naeemx1823
    @naeemx1823 2 роки тому +2

    and here I am worried about joining a coding bootcamp because I have no coding experience.

  • @SevenDeMagnus
    @SevenDeMagnus 4 роки тому

    Cool to see her daughter who helped with debugging.

  • @nithuk3712
    @nithuk3712 11 місяців тому

    She is amazing. Also one more amazing thing is her dressing and hair style looks modern. Like today's generation.

  • @renatashp
    @renatashp 3 місяці тому

    a great heroine! ❤❤❤

  • @thirdeyetv.
    @thirdeyetv. 4 роки тому

    We need a movie, 2016 when America was great

  • @smowzer
    @smowzer 5 років тому +4

    tHE DOWNVOTES ON THIS VIDEO ARE JUST AUSTRALIAN VIEWERS GIVING IT A THUMBS UP

    • @PeopleHealthTru
      @PeopleHealthTru 4 роки тому

      The title is intentionally deceptive. She was one of many programmers, and not the primary programmer. She was one of the first to call her job a computer engineer.

  • @snakemansnakes1
    @snakemansnakes1 4 роки тому +5

    Such a beautiful person and beautiful mind

  • @pasisovi
    @pasisovi 3 роки тому

    The mass needs a show, a believe, doesnt matter if it is untrue

  • @alanhoffman-mp2es
    @alanhoffman-mp2es 24 дні тому

    Margaret Hamilton 😮😮😮....😅😅😅 Any Questions???

  • @isrj01
    @isrj01 5 років тому +1

    ⚘💜

  • @peterhaitch7507
    @peterhaitch7507 5 років тому

    4:10 denero is acting very well there to look interested, if its not about him i doubt he gives a hoot

  • @Daclaem
    @Daclaem 5 років тому

  • @szeredaiakos
    @szeredaiakos 3 роки тому

    Hmm, want to hire Lauren as tester. :D

  • @benheideveld4617
    @benheideveld4617 3 роки тому +1

    Software Engineer, there are hundreds of thousands calling themselves that job title, and no one without pride!

  • @jasonwilliams7973
    @jasonwilliams7973 4 роки тому

    AYYY THATS MY N1GGA

  • @fredgrimley8883
    @fredgrimley8883 4 роки тому

    As much as a movie should be made about this, they (hollywood) shouldn't make it unless they get the right actress. Don't go for the biggest name, go for the right one.
    The ONLY ONE I see doing it correctly is Mayim Bialik. She has an UNCANNY resemblance to Margaret Hamilton, right down to the oversized glasses, and she's an actual scientist to boot.

  • @diouranke
    @diouranke 5 років тому

    What was she coding in, just curious

    • @dougbadgley6031
      @dougbadgley6031 4 роки тому

      Naͣfiͥsaͣhͪ Oury Bah That’s a good question. I’m not sure either but would like to know as well.

    • @bostonseeker
      @bostonseeker 4 роки тому +1

      @@dougbadgley6031 Assembly. I think they tested out ideas in higher-level languages. But coding of the navigation was assembly and stored on the woven core. The astronauts interfaced through the DSKY panel and an architecture that featured a 16-bit word and a noun-verb structure for fixed list of commands for orientation, starting and stopping the engines and thrusters, etc.
      Digital was essential for getting to the Moon, because analog wasn't accurate enough. Analog was fine for Earth orbit, where just an astronaut with his watch could do basic navigation by hand. Going to the Moon was much more complicated. It involved too many interdependencies for the astronauts to do manually (list Mercury) or even with a simple analog computer (like Gemini).
      Equally crucial was the introduction of integrated circuits (ICs). Only ICs were light enough to beat the weight limits crucial for getting to the Moon. ICs had never before been used in a full-scale engineering project. At one point, I think NASA was consuming 80% or more of the ICs in the US, stimulating the rapid expansion of the industry.
      All of this (digital, ICs, Margaret Hamilton and Draper Lab, the mission-saving stack overflow/restart system) were among the reasons the US made it to the Moon when we did and the Soviets didn't.

  • @jasonvai4951
    @jasonvai4951 5 місяців тому

    I am really jealous of people who are born with such an intelligent mind.

  • @Lemmebeurrasputin
    @Lemmebeurrasputin 5 років тому +24

    who thinks she is pretty ??

    • @uaalien
      @uaalien 5 років тому +3

      Who thinks that "pretty" is for kardashians and other nonsense and has nothing to do with people who really make some difference?

    • @missionpupa
      @missionpupa 4 роки тому +1

      @@uaalien Since when are we not allowed to appreciate both beauty and brains? I didnt know they approved a legislation to ban compliments like this, I wasnt notified.
      P.S. stop watching the Kardashians, they are turning your brain into mush, and never bring them up in the same sentence as this lady. In fact, dont bring them up at all.

  • @oscars968
    @oscars968 3 роки тому +1

    If you form my school and mr James set this for you like 😂😂 a

  • @Neon-lt5jl
    @Neon-lt5jl 5 років тому +1

    Dang 1:42 she was bad though

  • @wymank
    @wymank Рік тому

    Praise God He performed His will through you Margaret, the moon was your mission in mind but advancement in technology and knowledge is a fulfilment of His Prophetic Word that has blessed lives in the medical field and Technology to broadcast His Word, the Good news to a growing world population...
    My dad worked for NASA then, contributed and learnt much from the Gift God gave you 🙏

  • @guitarttimman
    @guitarttimman Рік тому

    Margaret is one of those women who never lost her beauty. I think she's still very beautiful. I couldn't BELIEVE how damn pretty she was back in the days of the Apollo design. If she'd even touched my hand I would've straight up tingled and probably fainted from the excitement. Excuse me for loving that side of life, but I always will.

    • @HTML5Teacher
      @HTML5Teacher Рік тому

      Here is an old television commercial which features a model who looks like her (sister?) : ua-cam.com/video/sCslIoWPONM/v-deo.html

  • @emilywestbrook9248
    @emilywestbrook9248 4 роки тому

    Anyone else noticing there is ellen, bill gates, and tom hanks.

  • @cheypam
    @cheypam 2 роки тому

    It was insulting to watch Obama hand out such a prestigious medal of honor to Ellen Degeneres right after this amazing world- changing, brilliant, hard working woman!

  • @Cats4life111
    @Cats4life111 2 роки тому +2

    Also 4 black women helped that time
    There was racism and white people and black
    People white people were treated cherresied!
    And black people were treated badly…

    • @raccoon874
      @raccoon874 2 роки тому

      janitors don't count

    • @paulinegallagher7821
      @paulinegallagher7821 Рік тому

      @@raccoon874 black men and women were engineers and data configurators and analysts for NASA but were never talked about until recently.

    • @raccoon874
      @raccoon874 Рік тому +1

      @@paulinegallagher7821 *they probably stole a lot of shit*

  • @danielriotercero
    @danielriotercero 6 років тому

    Wow... Lady! You're knows yourself its the beatifull think of the earth?

  • @srinidhiarekal3483
    @srinidhiarekal3483 3 роки тому

    When you spend so much time in coding and don't bother about external stupid stuff ... You end up looking younger even after 80's !!!

  • @heinzchmielorz4146
    @heinzchmielorz4146 4 роки тому +1

    Zierbedrüse

  • @guitarttimman
    @guitarttimman Рік тому

    If only we could kill the devil.

  • @beakittelscherz5419
    @beakittelscherz5419 5 років тому +1

    @FightWorldSlavery
    "omg a woman did something lets stand up and make a huge deal!!!! "
    YES LETS DO THAT! CAUSE 99.99% OF TIME MEN TAKE THEIR CREDIT , OR BE GREEDY ABOUT IT!
    BTW QED!

  • @anshumalikumar3955
    @anshumalikumar3955 6 років тому +4

    God is a girl.and we must respect God.

  • @dand.v8123
    @dand.v8123 9 місяців тому

    Moonlanding fake