---
title: "The Woman Who Put Men On The Moon [Comic]"
description: "This is the story of Margaret Hamilton, one of the world's first software engineers. Her team's code saved the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969."
date: "2016-07-20"
modified: "2019-03-08"
authors:
  - name: "Luke Kingma"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/lukekingmagmail-com"
url: "https://futurism.com/images/the-woman-who-put-men-on-the-moon-comic"
categories:
  - "Space"
tags:
  - "apollo 11"
  - "buzz aldrin"
  - "comic strip"
  - "computer programming"
  - "futurism"
  - "infographic"
  - "margaret hamilton"
  - "mit"
  - "NASA"
  - "neil armstrong"
  - "software engineering"
  - "women in stem"
  - "women who code"
---

# The Woman Who Put Men On The Moon \[Comic\]

![The Woman who Put Men on the Moon featured image](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Screenshot-2025-09-17-at-12.44.12-PM-1.png>)

![The Woman Who Put Men on the Mars infographic](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Woman-Who-Put-Men-On-The-Moon-6-1.webp>)

## Author
Former copywriter turned journalist. Crawled through a river of obtrusive display ads, and came out clean on the other side. Now serving as Head of Creative at Futurism.

### Author social links  
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[LinkedIn](<http://www.linkedin.com/in/lukekingma>)