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Database System Concepts

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Author:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Publisher:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

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How did Margaret Johnson contribute to the software that allowed humans to reach the moon? Answer by explaining each quote below. “We showed that that could be done. We did it in what today seems an incredibly smalls amount of memory. Without it, Neil Armstrong wouldn’t have made it to the moon.” “She became an expert in systems programming and won technical arguments.”

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Margaret Johnson was an American computer scientist who contributed to the software that enabled the Apollo missions to the moon. She was part of the team that developed the software for the guidance systems that controlled the lunar lander and the command module.

The first quote "We showed that that could be done. We did it in what today seems an incredibly small amount of memory. Without it, Neil Armstrong wouldn’t have made it to the moon" highlights Johnson's contribution to developing the software that was used to land humans on the moon. She and her team had to design software that was reliable, compact, and efficient enough to fit in the limited memory and processing power of the Apollo Guidance Computer.

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