Poppy Northcutt and her colleagues did not directly program mission-control computers; IBM personnel entered their programs, and parts of the code were sometimes lost in translation.
Sources
- Inside Apollo mission control, from the eyes of the first woman on the job (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://innotechtoday.com/poppy-northcutt/ (innotechtoday.com)
- https://www.edn.com/frances-poppy-northcutt-the-first-woman-at-nasa-mission-control/ (edn.com)
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