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Software pioneer Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved Apollo 11, has died

Original: R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/r-i-p-marg

Margaret Hamilton, the NASA software engineer whose onboard flight code famously helped Apollo 11's lunar landing proceed despite a computer overload, has died, according to an obituary from Ars Technica. Hamilton led development of the Apollo guidance computer software at MIT and became an icon of early computing and space history. Tributes are circulating online celebrating her role in the 1969 Moon landing.

Why now: News of the death of a beloved Apollo 11 figure is prompting tributes and reflections on her historic contribution to spaceflight

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