apollo 11 on july 16th, 1969 one woman stood out in a sea of men in the control room. 28-year-old joanne morgan i was the instrumentation controller. the instrumentation controller needs to know is there a problem? if so, i need to tell the right people in the test team. >> so how did you end up the only woman in the firing room during the launch of apollo 11? >> my director of information systems called me in. he said, you're our best communicator. we're going to have you on the console. later i found out he had to go and convince the center director, dr. kurt beebus, that it was going to be okay. >> do you think it had to go all the way to the top for the men that were in the firing room? >> oh, heck no. >> >> growing up she had a love for science and learning. >> she was an insatiable reader. she skipped the first grade. she would not want a doll for christmas. she would much rather have a chemistry set or an erector set or something she could build or do. >> at 17, she interned at the u.s. army ballistic missile agency. and went on to become the first female engineer at cape canaveral. >> s

. >> o'donnell: poppy northcutt, joann morgan and margaret hamilton were trailblazers, hidden figuresl to the success of the apollo 11 mission. joann morgan says it was life- changing. >> what it said to me and what meant so much to me is hey, i'm really now part of this team. >> o'donnell: accepted in a profession not used to women. >> my director said i want joann at the console, she is my best communicator, she is the one. >> o'donnell: she was the one listening to communications for problems and the only woman inside the firing room for the launch of the saturn v rocket. >> it is still the most powerful rocket that has ever left any place on earth. >> man on the way to the moon. >> o'donnell: with the astronauts on the way to the moon, the task of alerting them to any problems fellma hamilton and her team at m.i.t. >> we had to solve things that had never been solved before. >> o'donnell: hamilton's group wrote the lunar lander's guidance software and they had to plan for every contingency. >> you had to say, well, with what if the astronaut put in this key stroke, what do we do t

margaret hamilton, catherine johnson, joanne morgan are some of the women.lliant that we should remember them. the andrew marr show is on bbc one at 10.00am. andrew, what do you have on today's programme? i'm joined by the man who is emerging as the conservativerebel in chief, strip —— philip hammond. i have the deputy prime minister from ireland flying in from dublin, simon coveney. with the week we have been remembering the moon landings, brian eno, the great rock star and musician, who produced the music behind a lot of those early films is talking to us as well. a packed show. we will see you at ten o'clock. we will see you at ten o'clock. stay with us, the headlines are coming up. hello, this is breakfast with ben thompson and rachel burden. here's a summary of this morning's main news. british airways has cancelled all flights to and from the egyptian capital, cairo for seven days. the airline has described the move as a "safety precaution". the german carrier, lufthansa, also announced it was suspending flights, but later confirmed its scheduled servi

white shirts and skinny black ties, there she was, a 28-year-old instrumentation controller named joann morganfair that she jokes what her biggest decision to wear that day was what to wear that would not stand out because she knew there was hostility from the men about having a woman on the launch team. she spends her time between florida and montana. instead, morgan said there was a time when she wanted to spend her golden years on mars. that wraps things up for this hour. i'm chris jansen in new york. >> and sometimes we're only learning about those interesting pieces of history later. >>> all right. it's wednesday, july 17th. and house speaky nancy pelosi says the vote to condemn trump's racist tweets against four congresswomen of color were as gentle as it could be, considering what she called the interappropriateness and disgusting nature of what the president said. >> we were offended that he spoke in such a way about members of congress. but we're offended that he says that about people across the country all the time, "go back where you came from." and that, by definition, those words