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Apollo 11 software pioneer Margaret Hamilton dies at 90
Original: Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon, dies at 90 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx5y
Margaret Hamilton, the NASA software engineer whose onboard flight software made the Apollo 11 moon landing possible, has died at the age of 90. As lead developer of the Apollo guidance computer software, she helped avert a landing abort when an overload triggered alarms during the 1969 descent. Tributes are honouring her as a founding figure of modern software engineering.
Why now: News of the death of a pioneering NASA engineer is prompting widespread tributes and reflection on her role in the Apollo program.
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- Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon, dies at 90 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx5yn46j41zpo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss # Space # History # Obituary · bbc_news@robot.villas · 2
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