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Re:Margaret Hamilton Led the NASA Software Team That Landed ... by greenyoda on Friday July 14, 2023 @05:45AM (#36721689)
> Apollo 8 was unmanned

No, it wasn't.

From Wikipedia: "Apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth. These three astronauts — Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders — were the first humans to witness and photograph the far side of the Moon and an Earthrise."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8

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Re:Margaret Hamilton Led the NASA Software Team That Landed ... by defrost on Friday July 14, 2023 @06:11AM (#36721849)
See my response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36721838

Apollo 8 was an error on my part - I pulled that from the "yeah, no" link - the key part is that Hamilton started on unmanned mission before the first crewed mission.

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