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We might have come a long way since the first trip to the moon. But at one point, even the first mission was going to fail miserably. Thanks to Margaret Hamilton's software, Neil Armstrong was able to land on the moon successfully back in 1969. Today, I will tell you about Margaret and her invention of the software program that took us to the moon. It was when Margaret moved to Boston, Massachusetts with her husband and daughter Lauren that she started working on computers. Margaret joined the MIT as a programmer to support her husband's graduation. Though software as a concept was very new, Margaret always saw potential in it. A software was a group of programs that enabled the computer to multitask without humans intervening. Margaret felt software's could make the computer a more efficient machine. In the earlier days, computers were huge machines that performed only one task at a time. The world was on the verge of a giant leap, thanks to the Apollo program l...