@Moon gynocentric historical revisionism is just hotep we wuz kangs shit but with mainstream support. 95% of anything of note in history was accomplished by a penis haver, and that’s okay.
@mono A more important thing i have discovered that no one is talking about is that there was a different NASA engineer named "Max Faget" that indirectly tried to sink her entire career by trying to sabotage political support for the unmanned apollo missions:
@Moon@mono >there was a different NASA engineer named "Max Faget" that indirectly tried to sink her entire career by trying to sabotage political support for the unmanned apollo missions >engineer named "Max Faget" >named "Max Faget" >"Max Faget" >Max Faget :akkojustright:
@mono i agree, just trying to figure out exactly what she did and when. turns out she was working there in 65 just at the bottom of the org chart. she was one of over a hundred people working on the software and it had already been to the moon before she became in charge of all of it. her later significant contributions were toward making the code much more robust, and development of new software development techniques to that end (as noted in that thread though, another guy on the team was single-handedly responsible for most of it and he is not recognized by anybody) the convolution seems to be, single woman hired to work on nasa moon landing code, goes on to contribute to advancements in software engineering, this is eventually mangled into "her software landed us on the moon (for the first time)(manned moon mission)"
@mono she definitely had code land on the moon in an unmanned mission, some of the code she was in charge of was never expected to ever be used because it would only kick in in an emergency nobody expected to ever happen. the emergency happened and so her code became really significant but everyone even her admits it was an accident and even the name of her program was ungraciously named "forget it" because no one gave a shit about it