Margaret Hamilton led the team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo missions. Her code was designed to handle errors and prioritize critical tasks in real time, which helped Apollo 11 land safely on the Moon when the computer became overloaded during descent. Katie Bouman helped develop the imaging algorithm used by the Event Horizon Telescope to reconstruct the first ever image of a black hole. She was part of the international team that turned petabytes of telescope data collected across Earth into the iconic image of the black hole in galaxy M87. Want more interesting content like this ? Follow gravitonomy :) #katiebouman #margarethamilton #science #space #astrophysics