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Apollo guidance computer code led by Margaret Hamilton now online

Original: The Apollo guidance code that Margaret Hamilton led is available online! It was scanned and shared openly. Her legacy wi

The Apollo guidance computer code, led by software pioneer Margaret Hamilton at MIT, has been scanned and made freely available online. Observers are celebrating the release as a tribute to Hamilton, whose software engineering principles still underpin the design of software for many space missions today.

Why now: The public release of the scanned Apollo guidance code has renewed appreciation for Margaret Hamilton's foundational role in space software engineering.

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• The Apollo guidance code that Margaret Hamilton led is available online! It was scanned and shared openly. Her legacy will live on in the fundamentals of software engineering that she created that still form the basis for software design for many space missions. # NASA #… · crawfordsm · 159

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