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Margaret Hamilton, Apollo 11 software pioneer, has died

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Margaret Hamilton, the NASA software engineer whose onboard flight code is credited with keeping the Apollo 11 moon landing on course in 1969, has died. Tributes are recalling her leadership of the Apollo guidance computer software and how her error-detection design prioritised critical tasks during the descent, as well as her broader role in founding modern software engineering.

Why now: News of the death of a pioneering figure in space history has prompted widespread tributes and retrospectives on her Apollo 11 work.

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• More on the death of Margaret Hamilton and her role in developing Apollo # software and the impact on the # apollo11 # MoonLanding # nasa # computer # programming https:// arstechnica.com/science/2026/1 0/r-i-p-margaret-hamilton-whose-code-saved-the-apollo-11-moon-landing/ · tabmcleo · 2

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