57 years ago today, humans first landed on the Moon. The source code that helped get them there? It’s on GitHub. Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team responsible for Apollo’s onboard flight software. The Apollo Guidance Computer software eventually grew to about 145,000 lines of code. 👀 Explore the original Apollo 11 guidance software for the Command and Lunar Modules. 🌕 github.com/chrislgarry/ap… Image credit: Draper Laboratory; restoration by Adam Cuerden, via Wikimedia Commons.

@github Always consider the environment before printing your source code

@github It’s wild how they achieved something so massive with such a lean codebase compared to modern standards. Margaret Hamilton is a proper legend.

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@github Hey @grok how accurate is this

@github i met her once, wonderful conversation about giving grace and a quarter turn of port wine is all you need

@github @claude go to the moon. Make no mistakes

@github Not even the Apollo flight guidance system is safe from JavaScript 😭😭😭

@github Your post makes it sound as if she led the team that eventually put humanity on the moon. This is not true. She did not write the software for Apollo. She was only the head after the development was over.

@github Let's not forget who else worked on this smithsonianmag.com/air-space-maga… As some people want us to believe. We must fight disinformation.

@github Thats incredible. Wait, is that Jimothy?

@github This is not completely true, for more context read this reddit.com/r/badhistory/s…

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@github the wild part: her team basically invented software engineering as a discipline here. she coined the term because nobody took "software" seriously yet. also the code had error-detection that saved the landing when the computer overloaded during descent. legend.

@github Apollo 13 had a huge merge conflict.

@github 57 years ago today! While Nixon was president for the #nixonmaxxers out there! Huge accomplishment especially when you realize your iPhone is way more powerful than the onboard computers in the Apollo capsule.

@github I just happy to 5k now that a woman led the team. That's the tweet!

@github 145,000 lines of code eh? @Grok approximately how many lines (of code 😉) would it take to code the Apollo Guidmace Computer today, you know, in case a of a guy or gal trying to make their own

@github Thanks ! I mean, yes, really, it's a piece of history and didn't even imagine it could be available on GitHub ! Let's have a look now !

@github No AI. HITL only. This is legacy legend.

@github Printing it is wild. Were people reading textbooks of codes back then just to gain context?

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@github 57 years ago.... a massive NASA sci-fi psyop took place... and y'all still didn't get the memo.

@github Guys I am pretty sure you can make this post for the ligtbulb as well All you have to do is create a repo with scanned copies of Edison's notes

@github They had a highly constrained onboard compute that they went with 100% assembly. Pain

@github I wish I had been there. Assembly coding for the win!!!

@github @grok I thought this was Bill Gates face?

@github You forgot to mention all the minorities that made it all possible. Checking my notes, Helen Keller was on half the flight missions. Get your facts straight!

@github @JNitterauer Analyze it with Claude and hack Apollo!!😂 😂 😂

@github Ofcourse humans landed on the moon inside a nasa studio. Pinocchio

@github I like the burn baby burn part

@github No one talks and admires thesewomen, wven the one pic of them if existed it will be just casual one, taken by chance.. how many inventions were done by women in the name of men

@github I think SpaceX forked that repo to jump-start Dragon Crew.

@github that's crazy to even think about. Does that mean I can launch a rocket using it 😋😂