I grew up watching code take shape on paper and screen while my father worked on the software for the LEM—the Apollo 11 Lunar Module “Eagle”. You know the one—Neil Armstrong names it the moment he says, “The Eagle has landed.” My earliest understanding of technology came from the place where precision and purpose kept human beings alive.

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