The Code That Saved the Moon Landing

Imagine the silence in Mission Control on July 20, 1969. The entire world held its breath, watching a grainy black-and-white feed of a dusty lunar surface rushing toward a fragile spacecraft. All eyes were on Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. But in the back of everyone's mind, a terrifying question loomed: What if the software fails? While the world celebrated the astronauts, a 32-year-old mother…