Computers and rocket ships were fodder for science fiction movies in 1963. The software that made the computers tick? Other than engineers, no one knew what it was. But Richard H. MacNeal and Robert Schwendler knew how software could help get the Apollo mission to the moon and they founded a company to do it. Fifty years later, MSC looks back on the event that made it one of the first software companies in the world. Check out the article I wrote for their 5oth anniversary here, on page 10.
