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Margaret Hamilton, Apollo Software Pioneer, Dies at 90

Original: The Woman Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions Has Died. Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to wo

Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist whose onboard flight software guided NASA's Apollo missions to the Moon, has died at the age of 90. She was the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at MIT, where she led development of the Apollo guidance software and helped coin the field of software engineering. Tributes are pouring in celebrating her foundational role in space history.

Why now: News of the death of a pioneering figure in space and computing history has just been announced

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• The Woman Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions Has Died. Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90. https:// archive.ph/qEkG7 # globalmuseum # software_engineering # NASA # Space · globalmuseum@mastodon.online · 20

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