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American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are preparing to land on the Moon. The whole world is watching live on television. But something is very wrong: Their warning alarms are flashing. There’s only one woman who can fix it: MIT software engineer Margaret Hamilton.

This episode originally aired on March 14, 2019.

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0:19.6	A listener note, the following episode originally aired in 2019, as part of a special series
0:25.5	we did with Smithsonian Magazine on Women in Science.
0:29.9	After our series on the race to send humans to Mars, we thought it was a good time to
0:33.9	revisit the story of the first time men set foot on the moon, and the woman behind that
0:40.1	mission, NASA Software Engineer Margaret Hamilton.
0:52.2	It's 1969.
0:54.4	Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are aboard the lunar module of the Apollo 11,
1:00.8	preparing to land on the moon.
1:03.6	If all goes well, they'll be the first humans to do so.
1:08.0	From the cockpit of the lunar module, Eagle, they can see every crater, valley, and mountain
1:13.5	peak scattered across the moon's surface, including their ultimate destination, the sea of
1:20.0	tranquility.
1:21.9	Back on Earth, at NASA's Man Space Center in Houston, Texas, they consider the opposite
1:27.4	of tranquil.
1:32.2	Mission Control is on high alert.
1:34.5	What's going on?
1:35.5	The crew are saying that two of their warning alarms have been flashing every 10 seconds
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