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Margaret Hamilton, Apollo software pioneer, has died

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Margaret Hamilton, the NASA software engineer whose onboard flight software was crucial to the Apollo 11 moon landing, has died. She led the team that developed the guidance computer code that kept the lunar module's systems running during the descent, and later popularised the term 'software engineering'. Tributes are pouring in celebrating her as a foundational figure in computing and a rare prominent woman in 1960s space engineering.

Why now: News of her death has just broken, prompting widespread tributes to a landmark figure in space and computing history.

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Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died · CNN

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