The Women of the Apollo Program participated in the United States space program during the Apollo Program.
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Participants
Female members of the Apollo Space Program included Bobbie Johnson, Judith Love Cohen, Ann Dickson, and Ann Maybury. Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Ann Dixon
Ann Dixon aspired to be an astronaut, but she never acquired the 600 hours of flying time necessary to qualify.
Margaret Heafield Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton (born August 17, 1936)[1] is a computer scientist, systems engineer and business owner. She was Director of the Software Engineering Division[2] of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for Apollo.[3] In 1986, she became the founder and CEO of Hamilton Technologies, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was developed around the Universal Systems Language based on her paradigm of Development Before the Fact (DBTF) for systems and software design.[4]
Hamilton published over 130 papers, proceedings and reports about the 60 projects and six major programs in which she was involved.
Eventually, she became director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. This division was responsible for developing the computer and software used on the Apollo 11 mission, under contract to NASA.