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Margaret Hamilton, NASA Apollo software pioneer, dies at 90
Original: Margaret Hamilton dies at 90
Reports say Margaret Hamilton has died at the age of 90. Hamilton led the team that developed the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo missions, work credited with helping the Apollo 11 lunar landing succeed, and she popularised the term 'software engineering'. Tributes are paying homage to her role as one of the most influential figures in the history of computing.
Why now: People are mourning and celebrating a pioneering figure in spaceflight and software engineering whose death has just been announced.
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