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Margaret Hamilton, who led Apollo software development at MIT and helped land astronauts on the moon, dies at 90
Hamilton led the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program. Her pioneering code played a critical role in the first moon landing and helped establish software engineering as a field; MIT announced her death at age 90.
New York Times
• Trip Gabriel
Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died
Wall Street Journal
• Robert Lee Hotz
Margaret Hamilton, Who Developed Software for First Moon Landing, Dies at 90
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