Fascinating article, if you can navigate past the cash wall

WSJ: Apollo 11 had a hidden here: software. A totally absorbing read, about the kids — many were in their early 20s, fresh from college, and some savvy oldsters inventing an entirely new science.

“You can’t get a degree in how to fly to the moon,” says Dana Densmore, who joined the lab in 1965 and became a control supervisor for the lunar-lander software. “You had to get people who know how to think, who are creative and alert. It was all invented on the spot.”

Pal Nancy was able to access the article via Apple News, and I’m sure there are other avenues too. If you aren’t a WSJ subscriber, this is a story worth searching for.