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Margaret Hamilton, Apollo 11 software pioneer, dies at 90
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Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led development of the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo 11 moon landing, has died at the age of 90. Hamilton, who coined the term software engineering and helped pioneer fault-tolerant programming, is being remembered as a trailblazer whose work made the 1969 lunar landing possible.
Why now: News of the death of a pioneering figure in space history and software engineering has prompted widespread tributes.
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