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Margaret Hamilton and the Code That Took Us to the Moon
Original: Before Computer Science Became a Boys' Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/science
The New York Times revisits the legacy of Margaret Hamilton, the software engineer who led development of the onboard guidance code for NASA's Apollo missions, at a time when computer science was far more open to women. The piece reflects on how the field later became male-dominated and what Hamilton's story says about women's forgotten role in computing history.
Why now: Readers are drawn to renewed attention on women's overlooked contributions to STEM and debates about gender imbalance in tech.
Margaret HamiltonNASAThe New York TimesApollo program
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- Before Computer Science Became a Boys' Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/science/space/margaret-hamilton-computer-science.html # Science # History # WomenInSTEM · nyt_science@robot.villas · 5
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