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Margaret Hamilton, Apollo software pioneer, dies at 90
Original: # MargaretHamilton , # software pioneer who helped put humans on the Moon, dies at 90 Her team's code kept # NASA 's # A
Margaret Hamilton, the software pioneer who helped put humans on the Moon, has died at 90. Leading the team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo programme, she is credited with ensuring Apollo 11's lunar landing stayed on course when the guidance computer became overloaded. Before that, she worked on aerospace systems at MIT. Tributes are honouring her as a founding figure of modern software engineering.
Why now: News of the death of a landmark figure in space history and computing has just been announced, prompting worldwide tributes.
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- # MargaretHamilton , # software pioneer who helped put humans on the Moon, dies at 90 Her team's code kept # NASA 's # Apollo11 's landing on course when guidance computer became overloaded She worked on other projects at # MIT , including # aerospace systems, before hearing of… · BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io · 4
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