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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @DamienWise@aus.social
· 4w ago
Boosted by @trending@homestead.social
Vale Margaret Hamilton. She was a Software Engineer. She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering: "When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. It was a memorable day when one of the most respected hardware gurus explained to everyone in a meeting that he agreed with me that the process of building software should also be considered an engineering discipline, just like with hardware. Not because of his acceptance of the new 'term' per se, but because we had earned his and the acceptance of the others in the room as being in an engineering field in its own right." Margaret Hamilton led the Software Engineering team at MIT that created the software that ran NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer. The photo of her standing next to a stack of source code printouts — that's her work, and she was essential to NASA's mission of landing people on the Moon for the first time ever and getting them back to Earth again safely. Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007 #MargaretHamilton #SoftwareEngineer #SoftwareEngineering #ComputerScience #NASA #MIT #Apollo #MoonLanding
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

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Augenstern 👓 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 @arthurdent@troet.cafe
· 1mo ago
Nochmal #gutenMorgen, Gestern habe ich erfahren, dass der diesjährige #BigBrotherAward an #Apollo und #Fielmann gegangen ist, wegen des Vertriebs der #Meta -Spannerbrille. Sehr gut 😊 Kleiner Hinweis: Die Apollo-Holding ist im Besitz des Essilor/Lucottica-Konzerns, die dieses Schnüffeltool auch herstellen. Nochmal: FINGER WEG von Ray Ban, Armani und Co. Gegen die ist Müller nur 'n Flohmarkthändler. Just saying… #Augenoptik
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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻 @peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
· 3mo ago
A 2.43 kilometres per second lunar collision with the #moon 384400 km away. (0) #NASA trajectory calculations for free-return during #Apollo required a 3 body problem solution. How is the #Falcon9 trajectory by chance? Why? (1) (0) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx25yn22l97o (1) https://www.kroneckerwallis.com/apollo-navigation-how-nasa-plotted-the-translunar-trajectory-to-the-moon/
What will happen when a SpaceX rocket collides with the Moon?
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What will happen when a SpaceX rocket collides with the Moon?

Our satellite has endured countless blows over millions of years - and astronomers think this one could be a useful accident.

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PKs Powerfromspace1 @Powerfromspace1@mstdn.social
· 3mo ago
@genejm1017.bsky.social · 57 years ago, at about 4:18 in the afternoon, humans landed on the lunar surface for the very first time. If you want to hear what that moment sounded like, listen along with me on "Apollo in Real Time ." https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/ #Apollo #LunarLanding #NASA anniversary
Apollo 11 in Real Time
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Apollo 11 in Real Time

A real-time interactive journey through the first landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1969.

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WikiPicBot @WikiPicBot@mastodon.online
· 3mo ago
𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬 ✧ Apollo 11 ✧ Apollo 11 was an American spaceflight mission, the first to land astronauts on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin set the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle down on July 20, 1969, with Armstrong and Aldrin stepping onto the lunar surface six hours later. They spent abo... #apollo #apollolunarmoduleeagle #earth #columbia #americanspaceflightmission #wikipedia
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itgrrl :donor: @itgrrl@infosec.exchange
· 4mo ago
OK all my #electronics / #PCB fab #FediFrens 👋 I need [1] to get a custom #keypad designed & fabbed and I’m starting from a low low base of “sure I’ve put built plenty of electronics kits & learned a bit of electronics theory but mostly a long time ago & I haven’t designed anything myself”… 🙃 so what’s the best way to get started? 🤔 I found a couple of places that do custom #keyboards & have online key[board|pad] design tools, which seems about right. I don’t actually want to become an expert in custom PCB / #keyboard design, PCB fabbing, or managing Shenzhen supply chains – I just want to get this one thing made [2] and am happy [3] to exchange money for goods & services (within reason) to get it done I’ve already looked at just using a gaming keypad to do the thing but I really want to integrate the keypad into the other thing to get it to where I want it to be…     OK, there’s no need to be coy I guess – I want to put a “real” keypad into my 1:1 #3Dprinted #Apollo #DSKY (WIP pic below) what’s my optimal pathway to getting this to exist? I imagine that other DSKY nerds may want one once it exists, so the ability to turn it into a limited run after the initial prototypes are done would be a bonus pls #boost4reach 🙏     (tagging in @projectgus@aus.social, @voltagex@infosec.exchange, & @Unixbigot@aus.social for starters…) #AGC       [1] want [2] yeah, I hear it too 🤪 [3] resigned
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Archaeology News :verified: @archaeology@mstdn.social
· 4mo ago
Archaeologists uncover rare 2,500-year-old votive statue bases at lost Apollo sanctuary in Cyprus Archaeologists working at the Sanctuary of Apollo at Frangissa in Cyprus have uncovered more than 20 votive statue bases preserved in their original positions, offering rare evidence of how religious offerings accumulated inside an ancient sanctuary over centuries... More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/statue-bases-at-lost-apollo-sanctuary-in-cyprus/ Follow @archaeology@mstdn.social #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #ancientcyprus #apollo
Archaeologists uncover rare 2,500-year-old votive statue bases at lost Apollo sanctuary in Cyprus | Archaeology News Online Magazine
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Archaeologists uncover rare 2,500-year-old votive statue bases at lost Apollo sanctuary in Cyprus | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Archaeologists in Cyprus uncover rare 2,500-year-old statue bases at the lost Sanctuary of Apollo at Frangissa.

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Thalia Archibald @thalia@discuss.systems
· 6mo ago
With the renewed attention on the Apollo Guidance Computer, I'll share some photos from a presentation I gave a couple of years ago on software documentation, featuring its source code. The engineers who wrote the software that got astronauts onto the moon sure had a sense of whimsy! Sources: Archival scans: https://archive.org/details/Luminary99001J2k60 B/W scans: https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/ScansForConversion/Luminary099/ Transcriptions: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 Photo sources in alt text. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #nasa #apollo #artemis
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LUMINARY 99 Rev. 1 AGC Program Listing : MIT Instrumentation Laboratory : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Apollo Guidance Computer Lunar Module software for Apollo 11 mission.  Note that there is also scan of an alternate printout of the same program.

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Italian News by RSS @ItalianNews@mastodon.ozioso.online
· 7mo ago
Corriere.it - Homepage: Private credit, anche i fondi Apollo e Ares limitano i riscatti da parte degli investitori: titoli giù in Borsa Troppe richieste dagli investitori individuali, stop ai rimborsi sopra il 5%. I precedenti di Blackstone, BlackRock e Blue Owl Private credit, including Apollo and Ares funds, restrict investor redemptions: stocks down on the stock exchange. Too many requests from individual investors, halt to repayments above 5%. Blackstone, BlackRock, and Blue Owl precedents. #Apollo #above5% #Blackstone #BlackRock #BlueOwl
Private credit, anche i fondi Apollo e Ares limitano i riscatti da parte degli investitori: titoli giù in Borsa
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Private credit, anche i fondi Apollo e Ares limitano i riscatti da parte degli investitori: titoli giù in Borsa

Troppe richieste dagli investitori individuali, stop ai rimborsi sopra il 5%. I precedenti di Blackstone, BlackRock e Blue Owl

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Robotics @robotics@mastodon.world
· 8mo ago
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While #Apollo is currently deployed in #MercedesBenz factories for logistics tasks, its design is intended to eventually operate within the specific constraints of #spacecraft and #extraterrestrial environments https://interestingengineering.com/photo-story/apollo-humanoid-robots-factory-work-to-space #humanoid #robot #SpaceRobot
Apollo humanoid robots prepare to transition from factory work to space
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Apollo humanoid robots prepare to transition from factory work to space

Apptronik’s Apollo robot, developed in collaboration with NASA, is built to perform tasks in factories and space environments.

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