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.
- Running
strings
on the image we see there is amargaret_flag.png
after the IEND chunk. - Using
binwalk
we can extract the file.
$ binwalk -e Apollo-Mystery.jpg
chctf{i_wr1t3_code_by_h4nd}