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The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 24

Publication:
The Boston Globei
Location:
Boston, Massachusetts
Issue Date:
Page:
24
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24 Boston Evening Globe Wednesday, November 1, 1972 Now about thole dunce caps WOMEN IN BUSINESS Margaret Hamilton Lickly Putting 'Eagle' on course I ii vrm w. iisak 1 --t I iiiiiii I By Alan H.Sheehan, Globe Staff As the Apollo 11 lunar module "Eagle" neared the surface of the moon, the voice of Commander Neil A. Armstrong suddenly shattered radio silence with an alarming message: "There's a 1201 abort, there's a 1202 abort I Television commentators pounced on the urgent Communication, quickly concluding that the problem was an on-board computer malfunction. Millions of Americans awaited an answer. Was the long journey to end without a historic landing on the moon? Perhaps no group of people had a keener interest in the perplexing development than a gathering of scientists and computer experts at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, where the- Apollo 11 's computer system was hatched.

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