Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing

This biography traces Margaret Hamilton’s path from a schoolgirl with wide-ranging interests and a strong curiosity to a pioneering computer programmer. As a child, Margaret loved numbers and thought about the distance to the moon and back. The account follows her development into a coding pioneer whose work was central to the Apollo 11 mission and the first lunar landing. Back matter includes an author’s note, bibliography, additional reading, and photographs.