Sunday Short Theatre – To Go To The Moon (2022)

For this week’s Sunday Short Theatre, we’ll head to the moon. Or more precise in To Go To The Moon we meet the young woman who saved the Apollo 8 mission!

This week’s short film is written and directed by Gabrielle Roberts at the Paper Starship Studios. This is a production company whose focus is on female-centric stories and push for change within the industry and the world.

To Go To The Moon is a 17 minute short film that is based on a true story. Dominique Roberts plays Margaret Hamilton, a hard working computer programmer/engineer at MIT. She worked on the software for NASA and help to prevent potential errors. Apollo 8  was the mission which first humans travelled into space towards the moon. NASA said no errors would happen, but thanks to Margaret and her team saving the day.

This film shows appreciation to Margaret and rightly so. We do love unsung heroes whose work/commitment saved the day from disaster or even horror. Fly Me To The Moon tried from a PR side of things, To Go To The Moon showcases the power of computer Science and engineering.

Margaret is a young woman working at MIT. Amid a time of great innovation in space travel, she’s hard at work in the mathematics department, working in the emerging field of software engineering.

She and her colleagues are working on the software for NASA, having worked her way up from her initial application for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Building her team from the ground up, she earns the respect of those she works with, though she’s still mistaken for a secretary. But when NASA’s Apollo 8 mission goes awry, it’s up to her and her team’s programming abilities to save the astronauts stranded in space.

Source: Omeleto