Margaret Hamilton

Description

Margaret Elaine Hamilton (née Heafield; born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts. - Wikipedia Entry

Chal: Return the flag to NASAs first software engineer.

Attachments

Apollo-Mystery.jpg

Solution

• Running strings on the image we see there is a margaret_flag.png after the IEND chunk.

• Using binwalk we can extract the file.

$ binwalk -e Apollo-Mystery.jpg

• We get a png file with the flag at the bottom of the image.

FLAG

chctf{i_wr1t3_code_by_h4nd}