Moon Machines

At first glance, the title give us an idea of what might talk about, and that's right! The time the man was in the moon, that is a very important historical moment we all know, but what about the people behind, that made it possible? the engineers, the machines, the difficulties. So that is the main main point we are going to talk on this entry.
I found this documentary video, very interesting, because I did not think about, the process, the people needed to go through and it's curious, because the technology were not that advanced. The Apollo program came up during the administration of John F. Kennedy and the desire to go to the moon and return safety to the Earth, about the six parts of the documentary, we are going to focus on the computational area, the people who built the machines.
The project Apollo, was developed at the MIT so it was a little controversial, because of the fact they were unsure if the would made it. But we all not it's not a typical school, they were very committed to what they was doing, and the tests they made were very precise, one example was the big watch that calculated the very exact point you was, it is interesting every single piece of the machine were specially designed to that machine.
Another point of the documentary I want to mention, is the participation of a woman, which at that time was rare, and the documentary emphasize the fact that there were very few women. Her name was Margaret Hamilton, she was an engineer and she was in charge to the board flight software.
The critical moment was when the final project launched, because even the tests, the probability of an error stays, but the great of all of this, it's the work team, the reward behind all the hard work, pays off. So I highly recommend watch this documentary, it have so many interesting facts.

Venice, Italy