Purely History on Instagram: "In the 1960s, women played a crucial role in the Apollo missions. The onboard guidance computers that helped land astronauts on the Moon used programs stored on woven memory known as core rope memory. Women, often called “little old ladies” in reports of the time, hand-wove wires through magnetic cores to physically encode the software. If a wire passed through a core, it represented a 1, and if it bypassed, it represented a 0. This painstaking work ensured flawless

Inside History on Instagram: "Best known for his iconic role as Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid films, Pat Morita was a Japanese-American actor whose path to stardom was anything but easy. As a child, he battled spinal tuberculosis, spending years in hospitals, and later endured life in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Before landing his breakout role, Morita built a career as a stand-up comedian and appeared in popular TV shows like Happy Days. But it was his portrayal of the wise,