Margaret Hamilton, Apollo software pioneer, dies at 90
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Margaret Hamilton, who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo moon program, has died.
Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program, has died at 90. She died on 30 September at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her daughter Lauren Hamilton told the Associated Press.
Hamilton headed the group that programmed the pinpoint landing on the moon. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said her work helped make humanity's first journeys to the moon possible.
Olivier de Weck, the Apollo program professor at MIT and interim head of its aeronautics and astronautics department, said Hamilton was 'a software engineer at a time when that field was in its infancy' and 'not only developed advanced code herself but also led a team in using that nascent technology to develop one of the most complex systems humanity had ever achieved.' In recent years a photograph circulated online showing Hamilton standing next to a towering stack of pages containing the code her team used during the Apollo project. A Lego set celebrating the women of NASA that was unveiled in 2017 included a figure of Hamilton.
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- Margaret Hamilton, who led a software team for NASA's Apollo program, dies at 90Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program, has died.Clickorlando · 8 Oct, 21:20
- Margaret Hamilton, who led a software team for NASA's Apollo program, dies at 90Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program, has died.News4Jax · 8 Oct, 21:20
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