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collectSPACE.com — A computer scientist who created the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo spacecraft and an actor who famously portrayed an astronaut whose life relied on that programming were among the recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented Tuesday (Nov. 22) at the White House.
President Barack Obama bestowed the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, to Margaret H. Hamilton and Tom Hanks, along with a prestigious group of 19 other recipients, including basketball players Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, actors Robert De Niro and Robert Redford, comedian Ellen DeGeneres, and singers Diana Ross and Bruce Springsteen.
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collectSPACE.com — A computer scientist who created the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo spacecraft and an actor who famously portrayed an astronaut whose life relied on that programming were among the recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented Tuesday (Nov. 22) at the White House.
President Barack Obama bestowed the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, to Margaret H. Hamilton and Tom Hanks, along with a prestigious group of 19 other recipients, including basketball players Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, actors Robert De Niro and Robert Redford, comedian Ellen DeGeneres, and singers Diana Ross and Bruce Springsteen.
Read more: collectspace.com/news/news-112216a-presidential-medal-freedom-hamilton-hanks.html
![[STS-135 Flight Day Journal] Flight Day 4 Recap](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NXso1SsROj0/mqdefault.jpg "[STS-135 Flight Day Journal] Flight Day 4 Recap
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A video recap of flight day 4 of the STS-135 mission of space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station.
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