Comment by yaakov34

It should be pointed out, just for balance, that Margaret Hamilton was appointed to be the head of MIT's Apollo software team long after the software was frozen; she was still a junior programmer on the project when the command module software was frozen in the 1966-67 timeframe (she became the head of the command module software development after that), and she became the head of the overall software program sometime in 1969 after the software was complete, and key people (such as Dick Battin) moved on to other things. Obviously it is still a major accomplishment to be responsible for release engineering and integration for something this mission critical, but in the media, I often see references to Margaret Hamilton somehow having "written" or "designed" or "lead the team" which made the Apollo software, which is just false.